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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 […]
Fake accounts, posers, and pretenders have been a constant issue online. Online services became indirect victims, especially if the posers act on a certain way that damages the reputation of the online service or hurt someone in real life due to their posts. The latest scandal on Youtube, for example, involves Youtube popular content creators […]
We are only starting the second week of 2019, but Australia’s government already experienced its first data breach of the year. Around 30,000 personal information of government staff working for the Victorian government was breached. The infiltration incident stole employees and officials’ records containing their full name, phone numbers, work email addresses and job titles. […]
A new Netflix scam email has been doing the rounds; as per reports, it’s a phishing message that seeks updated payment info from people. It’s one police department in Ohio that has revealed the incidence of such a scam. The Solon Police Department in Ohio wrote intimating people of this scam; the message reads, “We […]
As reported by SC Magazine, a U.K./Nigerian cybergang has accumulated a list of more than 50,000 corporate executives to be targeted in future phishing campaigns. According to Agari’s London Blue report, the list was generated in early 2018 and of the list, 71 percent were CFOs, 2 percent were executive assistants and the remainder were […]
Cybercriminals have devised a new way of hacking cardless ATMs using SMS-based phishing attacks. It has become a new trend with many financial institutions to offer cardless ATM transactions, thereby allowing customers to withdraw cash using only their mobile phones. This definitely makes things easier for the customer, but it does make things easy for […]
Private health still continues to retain its position as Australia’s most breached sector as phishing attacks register an increasing trend, as per the latest reports. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has come out with its Notifiable Data Breaches Quarterly Statistics Report for the third quarter of 2018 and it’s this report that […]
Just a few weeks after Facebook and Google faced controversial embarrassment when it comes to their security, seems like it is Apple’s turn for their own version of a security fiasco. Apple has officially apologized for the hacked Apple’s ID, as some of their customers in mainland China were targeted by spear phishing. The world’s […]
We at HackerCombat have always been writing about different kinds of phishing attacks and also on how phishing scams are on the rise. The last phishing-related story we had done was about a scam that uses multiple replica sign-in pages to cheat users into giving away their credentials. Today, we are focussing on an entirely […]
Forgot to lock your office, never mind you have a much bigger security concern to worry about, for example, phishing attacks. In 2017 nearly 76 percent of the business across the world suffered phishing attack. This happens because an average employee gets around 17 malicious emails every month, and the number is only going up. […]
Small and medium-sized enterprises are primarily facing phishing attacks, according to a recent research Despite growing phishing, ransomware and other types of malware threats, many small businesses do not have a cybersecurity employee training program, according to a report by experts in ethical hacking. Thanks to a survey of nearly 500 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) […]
The increased deals with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and its various alternatives have led to the creation of coordinated phishing attacks from the so-called “Bitcoin Airdrops”. Computer users look for several ways to get cryptocurrency assets, an activity that has already been noticed by criminals. This has proven to be one of the most successful […]
Thieves are using a new technique that involves manipulating font sizes to escape from Office security protocols, known as ZeroFont phishing, reports the International Institute of Cyber Security. According to specialists in information security training, one of Office 365 malicious software detection mechanisms is based on the processing of natural language to identify the content of frequently used […]
It was rather recently that Wombat Security Technologies, the leading provider of cyber security awareness and training, released its fourth annual State of the Phish™ report. Released in mid-January, the State of the Phish™ report came with some very notable findings. A Wombat press release discussing the report says- “The report findings demonstrate that the […]
The PANDA Malware first identified in the year 2016 by Fox IT, the malware primarily focused on banking sectors. With the last February, the campaign was heavily focused on cryptocurrency sites and the three active campaigns currently focusing on social media(Twitter and Facebook). According to F5 researchers, the four active campaigns that appear between February […]
Google has announced, for Google accounts, a new feature that would help successfully combat phishing attacks. In an update dated 25th April on its G Suite blog, Google had announced the introduction of this new verification feature (which will be available from May 7th, 2018) for all Google account holders who rely on Google Chrome […]
If you wish to ensure comprehensive advanced phishing threat protection, the very basic thing you have to ensure is mailbox security. This is because cyber criminals who always devise new methods to bypass enterprise security see emails as the best of targets. Every day billions of emails are sent worldwide and hence hackers see emails […]
Phishing attacks are now very common; every one who uses the internet comes across phishing emails almost daily and it seems that most of us have now trained ourselves to identify phishing emails. But have we really turned that clever? Doesn’t it seem, from all the successful phishing attacks that happen against individuals and organizations, […]
Phishing attacks have increased by 59 percent in 2017, compared to the figure in 2016, according to a report published by Kaspersky Lab. The ‘Spam and Phishing in 2017‘ report by the Kaspersky Lab also points out that this increase in phishing attacks has happened during a time span when there has been a decrease […]
Thinking of buying a domain name- a new one or a used one? Well, when you think of registering a new domain or buying a used one, there are certain things that you should be aware of. We live in a world where cyber security is so critical that it has become everyone’s responsibility. Everyone […]
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 […]