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MOSINT – OSINT Tool For Emails

  MOSINT is an OSINT Tool for emails. It helps you gather information about the target email. Features: Verification Service { Check if email exist } Check social accounts with Socialscan Check data breaches [need API] Find related emails Find related phone numbers Find related domains Scan Pastebin Dumps Google Search DNS Lookup You can […]

12 Most Common Subjects In Phishing Emails Used For Fooling Users

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 […]

Who’s Reading Your Gmail Messages?

Are any of our online activities private anymore? That’s the question many people asked after news broke that third-party developers read portions of Gmail messages — and sometimes entire conversations. This practice affects millions of inboxes — and people who signed up to get service-related emails such as automated travel planning information or material about […]

According to reports, Google allows external application developers to read people’s emails

  Although Google has promised better privacy measures to its users, reports from Wall Street Journal suggest that thousands of application developers have access to Gmail users’ private messages. These developers would receive messages from users who have subscribed to alerts as price comparisons for services or travel agency alerts, according to the media reports. […]

Data breach on Ticketfly compromises millions of user’s emails

  Ticketfly, an online ticket sale service, has been targeted by a malicious agent and, as a result, user’s personal information was stolen, information security trainingspecialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security. In addition, the Ticketfly website was deleted and a message was placed on the home page: “Your security is down, we are not […]

Imgur Data Breach Exposed 1.7 Million Users Emails and Passwords by Hackers

Imgur Data Breach exposed almost 1.7 Million Users sensitive Emails and Passwords that was occurred in 2014. Imgur is an online image sharing community which has 150 Million total users, 6 Billion page views per month, 1.5 Million Images uploading daily by Imgur visitors. This potential Imgur Data Breach was reported by a Web security […]

Phishing Emails are being sent to the users of Netflix by Hackers

This scam email is nearly well designed. The scammers are using a template system to create individualized reports with specific recipient data. This works like a mail-merge; the body of the email is generic, but the sender field is composed to show the name of the indicated victim, which personalizes the scam getting it more […]

theHarvester – Easy Intelligence Gathering

The objective of this program is to gather emails, subdomains, hosts, employee names, open ports and banners from different public sources like search engines, PGP key servers and SHODAN computer database. This tool is intended to help Penetration testers in the early stages of the penetration test in order to understand the customer footprint on […]

Reporter Gets His Email Hacked on The Plane

The reporter from USA Today claims his fellow passenger hacked his email during the flight while he was working on an article about Apple-FBI issue. Last year, Chris Roberts, a US-based IT security researcher exposed life-threatening vulnerabilities in United Airline’s in-flight entertainment system. The airline was then forced to start its first-ever bug bounty program.  Now, Steven […]

Encrypted Email Startup Tutanota Reaches 1 Million Users

Necessity is the mother of invention, the old adage has proved its worth again when a German-based company has successfully won the trust of privacy-conscious Internet users. The trend for using encrypted email service started after Snowden leaks. Several firms took on the NSA and came up with end-to-end email encryption system. Recently, a similar […]

Yahoo To Notify Users If Government is Trying To Get Into Their Account

Yahoo has followed the footsteps of Facebook and Twitter and has announced they will also alert its users regarding state-sponsored attacks — So if any user is found to have been targeted by state-sponsored hackers they will receive an alert from Yahoo. Though, the company did not disclose how it will be identifying state-sponsored attacks […]

Pro-Palestinian High School Students Hacked CIA Boss John Brennan’s Email

Some high school students are claiming to have hacked the email account of CIA’s director John Brennan. After hacking into the account, they published the personal information of more than 20 CIA agents. The leaked information included email addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers and clearance level of the CIA employees. All this information was […]

Hackers delivering ransomware virus in package delivery e-mails

A new ransomware email campaign detected in the fake email messages sent by either PostNord or Post Denmark, identified as Cryptolocker2. Hackers are targeting the Denish citizens with ransomware using a traditional method, which is by sending them an email message falsified to be delivered by Danish post office informing them that their package was […]

Facebook Adding PGP Encryption to Prevent Email Hacks

The feature of adding OpenPGP public keys to profiles is launched by Facebook to prevent your notification emails from prying eyes of hackers. Facebook has added a new feature for the convenience of its users. Reportedly, this new feature will allow users to add an encryption key to their accounts for securing their email notifications. […]

Anonymous Hacks Israeli Arms Importer Site, Leaks Massive Client Login Data

Online hacktivist Anonymous has breached into the website of an Israeli arm importer and manufacture Fab-Defanse (fab-defense.com) and leaked login credentials plus personal details of its local and international clients/customers, including some government officers. The latest cyber attack was conducted under the banner of OpIsrael. After analyzing we found out that data is legit and never been […]

Email titled “My New Photo ;)” actually Contains Malware

Email titled “My New Photo ;)” actually Contain Malware – A .Zip file has an attachment Supposedly containing the promised image. Summary: Hackers, in their latest spree, are spreading fake emails with a much alluring subject “My New Photo ;),” which in reality contains a malware. There is a .Zip file harbouring the photo in a […]

Researcher publishes 10 million passwords, usernames amid FBI raid

A security researcher has revealed from a research of various data breaches, a collection of 10 million usernames and passwords. The leaked database dumps that had the 10 million usernames and passwords were already available to the public online. But a popular security consultant, Mark Burnett – the person involved in the collecting and researching […]