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The streaming company Netflix launches its Bug Bounty program in which it offers rewards ranging from US $ 100 to US $ 15000 per bug detected. Information security training analysts of the company said that in order to keep its community more secure, including users, partners and employees, Netflix has publicly launched its Bug Bounty program […]
Phishing is one of the most common problems for Internet Users, hackers find a new innovative method to create believable URL’s to trick users. According to Google research, more than 15% accounts hijacked by using these social engineering methods. Crooks ran a Netflix phishing campaign to hijack user accounts. Phishing campaigns run by crooks hijacking top […]
The streaming company retweeted its care for the Internet Association’s Friday announced it would “interrupt in a judicial action to save net neutrality protections.” The IA plans on shoving back against the FCC’s choice last month to pull back Obama-era laws that blocked internet providers from blocking a path to particular sites, as well as […]
Netflix is home to more than 100 million users from around the world and since it is a paid service the chances of online threats against the service are higher than usual. Recently, HackRead detected a phishing scam that targets personal and financial data of Netflix users in the name of updating their payment method. Although there […]
Netflix has over 100 million users, and that is the reason it has become a highly lucrative target for cybercriminals. Lately, a new phishing scam has been making rounds on the Internet that aims at stealing login and credit card details of Netflix users. In this phishing scam, cybercriminals are sending fake emails alerting users […]
Your Netflix account will be suspended if you don’t update your billing information, says a personalized email from Netflix, which is a phishing attack. However, this is different from the one that targeted Netflix users earlier this year. The wholesale phishing spree was discovered by an Australian security firm called Mailguard last week, Deadline reports. […]
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 […]
Attackers take advantage of people using corporate email addresses for consumer services. A phishing campaign which sees cybercriminals send messages claiming to be from Netflix is targeting business email accounts in an attack which, if successful, could provide hackers with the login credentials required to access corporate services. While this might seem like a fruitless […]
Larson Studios paid $50,000 to the hacker group, but they decided to leak the season because of breach of contract. Season 5 of Netflix’s “Orange in the New Black” TV show got leaked in April after hacker The Dark Overlord managed to break into the network operated by Larson Studios, and according to new information, […]
The CEO of Disney Bob Iger has reportedly warned that hackers are holding the unreleased copy of “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie which is due to be released this summer by Disney franchise but the hackers are demanding a massive amount of ransom payment in Bitcoin and threatening to release the movie before time if […]
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A hacker (or hacker group) known as The Dark Overlord (TDO) has leaked the first ten episodes of season 5 of the “Orange Is The New Black” show after two failed blackmail attempts, against Larson Studios and Netflix. TDO is one of the most well-known figures in today’s dwindling hacker landscape. He first appeared on […]
If you have a Netflix account you might be at risk of falling prey to a new phishing scam that targets Netflix users through emails. These emails contain a fake login screen of Netflix and ask for the login information. If the user enters the login information, the scammers ask for the credit card details. Fake Netflix […]
OurMine hacking group are back and this time they hacked and took over the official Twitter accounts of Netflix US and Marvel entertainment in a hack attack that took place on Wednesday morning. The group OurMine is known for using stolen passwords from LinkedIn and MySpace data dumps that were originally leaked online in 2016. Until now […]
The feed was taken over by a hacking group, OurMine, who used the hijack to promote its website and invite Netflix to get in touch. The social media team running the Netflix US Twitter account, which has 2.5 million followers, got off easily. Previous account takeovers have been used to spread fake news or, in […]
Netflix is sending emails to its subscribers urging them to reset their passwords after discovering ”some” Netflix email addresses and passwords listed on a breach at another company. Security experts at Netflix were performing their regular security monitoring when they identified that there were some Netflix email addresses and passwords that matched the credentials released […]
Logins and passwords that match Netflix accounts have been released by a separate company, Netflix said today in an email to affected customers. I found out via email, as I am a customer. They sent this warning: As part of our regular security monitoring, we discovered that credentials that match your Netflix email address and password […]
FOR YEARS HOLLYWOOD has waged a war on piracy, using digital rights management technologies to fight bootleggers who illegally copy movies and distribute them. For just as long, hackers have found ways to bypass these protections. Now two security researchers have found a new way, using a vulnerability in the system Google uses to stream […]
Malware in Netflix Apps Steals Credit Card details of Users— Symantec Researchers Netflix Apps delivering more than movies: Netflix has become excessively popular among people all over the world as it offers free online entertainment. But, this popularity has also made it the eye candy of hackers and malicious actors. As per Symantec’s analysis, Netflix is […]
Attackers steal users’ Netflix credentials and add them to black markets focused on providing access to the streaming service for cheaper prices. Netflix’s popularity has sharply grown since its creation in 1997. The company recently launched its streaming service globally. It is now available in more than 190 regions around the world. This success has […]