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A bug bounty hunter from India, Sahad Nk who works forSafetyDetective, a cybersecurity firm, has received a reward from Microsoft for uncovering and reporting a series of critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft accounts. These vulnerabilities were present on users’ Microsoft accounts from MS Office files to Outlook emails. This means, all kinds of accounts (over 400 […]
IRS has issued a warning to taxpayers and tax professionals about a phishing email scam that targets Hotmail users and steals their financial information. The fraud email comes with a subject line that reads “Internal Revenue Service Email No.XXXX”| We’re processing your request soon | TXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX”.The email then coaxes the user to sign a fake […]
Massive Data Breach Hits Russian Users of Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail — Russian Hacker Steals 250 million Email Addresses and Passwords and Puts them On Sale This time, it is a massive data breach conducted successfully allegedly by Russian hackers. In the hack attack, around 250 million email addresses and passwords belonging to users of […]
Okay. This one’s quite a shock… According to a recent Reuters report, the Chinese government was supposedly behind a hacking campaign that targeted the Tibetan and Uighur leaders who were also users of Hotmail, Microsoft’s email system. Reuters also alleges that Microsoft probably knew about this hacking campaign all along, but was mum about it. […]
Microsoft will now be informing users of any state-sponsored attacks. The news comes after Reuters asked Microsoft officials regarding a hacking campaign in 2011 in which hackers attacked leaders from China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities. Reuters asked Microsoft to provide reasons as to why they didn’t tell the victims regarding the hacking campaign. In response […]
Microsoft will now tell users of its email services when their accounts are being attacked by government hackers. The change in policy comes as Reuters reported that the company chose not to tell thousands of Hotmail users that their email accounts had been hacked by Chinese government officials. Security experts for the company reportedly found evidence in […]
Originally this Russian website was designed for purely non-controversial spear-fishing activities, but now its log-in page has been compromised and displays a phishing page. The agenda of this campaign is to steal login details of Outlook Web App. Read More: Your Office Document may be Vulnerable to Malware: Warns Microsoft The Scam: According to security researchers […]