The concept of phishing is gaining immense popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic. People, by and large, are becoming victims of such fraudulent activities. Therefore, we have come up with 5 ways businesses can avoid getting trapped with emails that are meant to deteriorate their online identity. Based on recent Phishing records, almost 90 percent of companies […]
The attackers exploited the human factor to gain access to Twitter’s internal systems and the accounts of some of the world’s most prominent figures
A phishing email is one of the very first phases of a phishing attack. It is easy to deploy and monitor and works most of the time. Even with good employee training, phishing attacks can still penetrate your system. Hundreds of phishing protection software services are focused on one thing and one thing only, stopping […]
A phishing email is one of the very first phases of a phishing attack. It is easy to deploy and monitor and works most of the time. Even with good employee training, phishing attacks can still penetrate your system. Hundreds of phishing protection software services are focused on one thing and one thing only, stopping […]
A new zoom phishing campaign observed asking recipients to join a zoom meeting that threatens employees that their contracts will be either suspended or terminated. The recipients are presented with a fake Zoom login page that asks recipients to input the login credentials. Zoom is an online video communication platform that has features such as […]
WhatsApp also emerges as a favorite target for brand impersonation amid a general spike in social media phishing
As the tide of phishing attacks rises, improving your scam-spotting skills is never a bad idea
A prolific phishing kit distribution network dubbed “16Shop” believed to be active since 2018 and developed by a hacking group called the “Indonesian Cyber Army.” It’s a huge first attack targeting Apple kits and then attacked Amazon customers before the prime day in 2019. The analysis also explained that 16Shop is using three different anti-bot […]
CATPHISH is a tool to generate similar-looking domains for phishing attacks. The program will check expired domains and if they are categorized by office gateway and proxy which may allow penetration tester to evade proxy categorization. Normally attacker will register and use whitelisted domains for C2 servers. Supported algorithms with this tool are: SingularOrPluralise prependOrAppend […]
Information security specialists have revealed details about a recent cybercriminal campaign identified as “MasterMana Botnet”, related to multiple key concepts in the world of cybersecurity, such as the use of botnet, backdoors, theft of cryptocurrency, among others. Experts estimate that thousands of companies around the world have already been attacked by the operators of this […]
Phishing Simulation mainly aims to increase phishing awareness by providing an intuitive tutorial and customized assessment (without any actual setup – no domain, no infrastructure, no actual email address) to assess people’s action on any given situation and gives ability to understand what is the current awareness posture What? One of the objective of […]
A new Amazon phishing scam email is circulating, that tricks users into handing over their personal as well as financial information including credit card information to online crooks. Usually, Hackread covers phishing scams identified and alerted by cyber security companies but in the latest one, the targeted scam was aimed at my supposed Amazon account. […]
Phishing Simulation mainly aims to increase phishing awareness by providing an intuitive tutorial and customized assessment (without any actual setup – no domain, no infrastructure, no actual email address) to assess people’s action on any given situation and gives ability to understand what is the current awareness posture. What? One of the objective of organizations […]
When it comes to phishing scams, Microsoft has turned out to be the most preferred target for hackers while PayPal, Facebook, and Netflix are also on the list. Among the various hacking techniques out there, phishing scams happen to be one of the most successful and commonly used ones. The reason being that it is […]
One of the most persistent security challenges is phishing. This is true for both organizations and individuals. Whether gaining access to credit card information, security passwords, or any other sensitive information, hackers can use different techniques, such as social engineering, emails, phone calls, and other forms of communication, to steal data. This opens up businesses […]
FiercePhish is a full-fledged phishing framework to manage all phishing engagements. It allows you to track separate phishing campaigns, schedule sending of emails, and much more. The features will continue to be expanded and will include website spoofing, click tracking, and extensive notification options. The current functionality with this framework are: FiercePhish URL Prefix – […]
GreatHorn, an incident-response consulting firm has released their Email Security, Challenges, Trends and Benchmark Report 2019 revealing that the corporate world and email users, in general, has not yet learned its lessons with regards to safeguarding from phishing attacks. The study GreatHorn said aims to increase awareness with regards to email-based threats and the continued […]
Ultimate Phishing tool with android support available comes with 34 attack vectors of the most popular used services. Hidden Eye Modern Phishing Tool Features 1) LIVE ATTACK Now you will have live information about the victims such as : IP ADDRESS, Geolocation, ISP, Country, & many more. 2) COMPATIBILITY All the sites are mobile compatible. […]
The tension generated by the cyber warfare between the United States, and its allies, and Iran keeps growing. Although some information security specialists consider Iranian hackers to be light years away from the U.S. government in terms of capabilities and resources, this does not apply in the same way for the American private companies’ technology […]
Spear-Phishing Even with the number of messaging apps available now, companies still use email. On average, a person receives over a hundred emails a day from bosses and companies. Because of this, hackers have created a dangerous phishing method called “spear-phishing.” What is phishing and spear-phishing? Phishing is a popular cyber-attack method created in the […]
As the number of users on the platform has increased over the years, so has YouTube’s list of ‘banned content.’ Adding further to the list, YouTube has banned ‘instructional hacking and phishing’ videos. The latest bans have led to the deletion of several educational videos on ethical hacking as they now violate YouTube’s Terms of […]