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20 years in prison for sending malware emails and infecting computers

According to ethical hacking specialists, two Romanian citizens have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for infecting more than 400,000 computer computers with a variant of malware to extract financial information, an incident that led to a million-dollar fraud. Bogdan Nicolescu (35 years old) and Radu Miclaus (37 years old), were convicted by a […]

AMP for Email: why so secure and how to get whitelisted?

If you’re reading this post, you are probably more or less familiar with brand new AMP for Emails technology developed by Google. It turned out that new horizons are opened wide for the commercial email channel. Therefore email marketers don’t have to retrain into plumbers or waiters. However, new skills and knowledge are obviously required […]

Gmail is the most secure email service. What about the most insecure? It’s AOL. Full list of email services most exposed to hackers

Unfortunately, data breaches are very common incidents today, with email addresses being one of the most exposed data in these cases. In this regard, information security experts, in collaboration with the firm Who Is Hosting This, conducted a study to find the most secure email services, as well as those most exposed to hackers. One […]

Hacker sends strange message to all customers of a shoe company

A threat actor has played a bad trick on the IT team and many of the customers of a popular shoe company. According to ethical hacking specialists, a hacker, self-appointed as “Nathan”, infiltrated the computer systems of the company TOMS Shoes, gaining access to their email list. Once there, the hacker began sending emails with […]

A pervert Yahoo employee hacked 6,000 accounts using internal system

Once hacking Yahoo Mail accounts, the employee also compromised accounts to access his victims’ Dropbox, Facebook, Gmail, and iCloud accounts. Yahoo Mail has more than 200 million active users around the world and that makes it a lucrative target for cybercriminals but this time an insider at Yahoo is making headlines for all the wrong […]

Operation reWired: The FBI arrests 300 hackers in different countries

Cybercrime has been punched in the face. Ethical hacking specialists report that the FBI has commanded an international operation that led to the arrest of more than 200 persons involved in a scam via emails that have spawned large economic losses for the victims. According to experts in ethical hacking, a few months ago the […]

ProtonMail denies that it offers real-time surveillance assistance (Updated)

A Swiss lawyer has accused ProtonMail that the company has initiated offering IP Logging upon request of Swiss authorities. ProtonMail, the famous end-to-end encrypted email service from Switzerland, has denied the claims made by a Swiss lawyer Martin Steiger regarding the company’s involvement in voluntary assistance to Swiss authorities for real-time surveillance. The head of […]

What to do if your email is found on the Dark Web

If your email is on the dark web it is quite possible that its password is leaked as well either in plain text or encrypted with some hash format. The dark web is 99% of the Internet we can’t access from the browsers we’ve got. Regularly used by hackers and black hats, any information available […]

The Biggest Problem With Google Search

We’ve come across the human bias factor seeping into AI algorithms from time-to-time — the latest being Google Images showing pictures of a chimpanzee using Instagram when one searched for “Black Person Scrolling Instagram.” Just last year, we came across another incident of a Google search showing addresses of girls’ schools and hostels when users […]

Top 10 Best Preventive Methods to Secure Email Accounts from Email Hackers

Secure Email Accounts is one of the most important concerns in the digital world since the email account is one of the most targetted sources for cyber attacks . The Email accounts are the tempting targets for hackers, they find every possible way to infiltrate your email accounts as they are the unique identifiers for […]

800 Million Emails Leaked Online From Worlds Largest Email Verification Service

Researchers discovered the 150GB volume of biggest and most comprehensive email unprotected MongoDB that leaked 800 Million Email data online that belongs to Verifications.io. The leaked email contains sensitive information including personally identifiable information (PII) and the complete data being available in public that can be accessed by anyone on the internet. This Database exactly […]

New URL filter evasion method for phishing campaigns

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 […]

Hackers Bypass Google Filters & Launching CSV Malware via Google Sheets

Cybercriminals are using new sophisticated techniques to spread CSV malware via Google sheets instead of using Microsoft Excel sheet which is often used by malicious hackers. Cyber attackers are day today increasing and the attackers are always one step ahead to launching sophisticated cyber attackers which is very difficult to detect and mitigate. Basically .CSV […]

Thousands of web domains were hijacked due to GoDaddy vulnerability

An unknown attacker has exploited this weakness to deploy multiple malicious email campaigns At the end of last year a campaign of bomb threats via email provoked massive evacuations and closures of activities in hundreds of organizations in the United States, Canada and some areas of Latin America, the fact was reported by researchers from […]

Twitter: “Your private tweets were public for years”

A new security incident shakes this social network The social network Twitter has just announced the finding of a security flaw that provoked public exposure of the supposedly privacy protected tweets after making some changes in user accounts, as reported by experts in network security and ethical hacking from the International Institute of Cyber Security. […]

Third-Party Apps May Read Your Email: Learn How to Protect

Sad news about the unauthorized viewing of email messages by third-party application developers has alarmed Gmail users. It’s understood the Internet giant did not resort to ignoring the problem, the corporation provided detailed comments on possible exposure of the letters dispatched by its users to unauthorized reading and updated protection mechanisms. There is something more […]

Google Slammed For Giving Gmail Access To Third Party Developers (Humans)

There are many third-party apps that require access to your Gmail account. For instance, the ones that help you plan trips or shop online. The situation seems to be fine until one realizes other humans are also reading their emails. According to a report from WSJ, third-party apps have access to users’ Gmail accounts and permission to […]