As the tax filing deadline is almost upon many taxpayers, the cybercriminal groups have launched their aggressive campaign to capture this potential income stream. Banking trojans that were installed in some computers, most of which remained idle for months are now springing back into the action of monitoring the computers that infected waiting for bank […]
Phishing is a way to extract confidential data from individuals and businesses. Mostly by creating fake Web pages or send emails to disclose login names, passwords, credit card information, etc. Once cybercriminals have the data that they are looking for, they can easily steal money and personal information from the poor victims. Cybercriminals also […]
Microsoft has announced that it has seized some key websites that Iranian hackers used for stealing sensitive information from unsuspecting users in the US as well as launching cyber attacks. Reportedly, 99 websites have been seized by Microsoft of an Iranian hacker group that is known by many names including Phosphorus, Charming Kitten and APT […]
Phishers for decades have honed their skills of persuasion, that is why the art of fooling people through an Internet-messaging method is a huge business by cybercriminals. There is money to be earned by collecting personally identifiable information, either sell them to 3rd parties or use it for extortion and blackmail, especially if the victims […]
Phishing attacks via emails are pretty common these days for which cybercriminals have new ways of luring users into falling prey to such attacks with ease. According to a cybersecurity research firm Barracuda, one such method is using ‘clickbaity’ subject in a mail. Barracuda, after monitoring 360,000 emails in three months, has suggested that there are […]
Both American Express and Netflix enjoy a lion share of their respective customer base, they offer their customers a convenient way to shop and watch whatever movie they wish respectively. As they fully support millions of customers all at the same time, they attract attention not only of their target market but also those who […]
Phishers for decades have honed their skills of persuasion, that is why the art of fooling people through an Internet-messaging method is a huge business by cybercriminals. There is money to be earned by collecting personally identifiable information, either sell them to 3rd parties or use it for extortion and blackmail, especially if the victims […]
The Carmel Unified School District in the state of California has reportedly been hit by a phishing scam. Reports say that the Carmel Unified School District has sent out an email to employees notifying them of this attack; the email reportedly informs them that there has been unauthorized access to some email accounts within the […]
A cybersecurity researcher who last month warned of a creative phishing campaign has now shared details of a new but similar attack campaign with The Hacker News that has specifically been designed to target mobile users. Just like the previous campaign, the new phishing attack is also based on the idea that a malicious web […]
Gmail, from Google, is one of the main services that use this login method Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber security ensure that malicious actors have been developing their methods to deploy phishing campaigns to the point where they are able to bypass multi factor authentication. “There has been a significant increase […]
Malicious campaign operators have devised a new method for sending documents with malicious files Phishing campaign operators found ways to prevent malware-loaded Office documents from being detected by some security software solutions; according to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, attackers are deleting links from the relationship file […]
Cyber Criminals now distributing new dubbed Muncy malware as a EXE file format via DHL phishing campaigns to target the users around the world. DHL phishing is one of the widely distributing campaigns that delivers that various sophisticated malware in recent past via malspam emails. Threat actors are leveraging the poorly configured SMTP servers and […]
How do you check if a website asking for your credentials is fake or legit to log in? By checking if the URL is correct? By checking if the website address is not a homograph? By checking if the site is using HTTPS? Or using software or browser extensions that detect phishing domains? Well, if […]
Nokia is a failed brand in the west, including in their native Finland since the emergence of the 2007 smartphone named Apple iPhone. After a solid decade of being the number 1 mobile phone hardware manufacturer, today Nokia only exist as a 3rd tier of Android devices now manufactured by HMD Global, after they bought […]
The popular Google Translate service is used as a tool to deploy cyberattacks Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security reported the emergence of a phishing campaign in which attackers use the Google Translate service to extract Google and Facebook access credentials from their victims. The cybersecurity specialist known […]
Hackers see the healthcare industry as a lucrative target for hackers, why we say so is because we have seen this happening again and again. In 2017 we saw how criminals targeted hospitals with weaponized- ransomware, misconfigured cloud storage buckets and phishing emails. In 2018, it continued and this time the cybercriminals got more creative, […]
The Gmail feature that ignores ‘.’ the dot in an email address (which makes an email address with a dot no different as the email address without a dot) is now being taken advantage by threat actors in order to pull a very clever phishing attack. The placement of the ‘.’ in the email address […]
Edmonton Economic Development Corporation, an agency under Edmonton City, Canada reportedly became a victim of cyber swindling through clever phishing technique to the tune of $375,000. In their official press release, the company said that they are working with law enforcement and legal authorities for the possibility of recovering the stolen funds. They boasted their […]
Cybersecurity researchers have warned the public that there is a convincing phishing email pretending to be coming from Telstra, the Telco giant. The sample provided falls into the category of ‘spear phishing’, which means only those that are current customers of Telstra received it. Using clever formatting tricks, the email looks the same as a […]
Jigsaw, subsidiary of alphabet launched phishingquiz helping user’s to identify what’s fake, the program loads eight questions and asks the user’s to identify it is a phishing or a legitimate one. A phishing attack is one of the dangerous social engineering attacks that leads to capture a victim’s username and password that will get store […]
Ransomware is a reality and threat actors are using it quite avidly and frequently nowadays in order to make easy money. According to the new findings of MalwareHunterTeam, there is in-development ransomware that can encrypt your files, steal credit card information and steal PayPal credentials using the phishing page. The ransomware is not extraordinary in its […]