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The types of email spams break the chain of luring offers that scare us when we check our emails. Almost everyone who has an email address sometimes has to deal with spam mail. However, if you know how to identify this spam email, you will not be the victim of the many online scams. Email […]
This is really interesting- a popular online forum that hackers have been using to trade stolen credentials has been hacked! Reports confirm that OGusers, a popular online form used by hackers to trade stolen account credentials, has been hacked and that this had caused sensitive personal data of many users to be exposed. Brian Krebs […]
An international law enforcement operation has led to the dismantling of the global cybercrime networkcybercrime network that used the GozNym banking malware to steal money from bank accounts across the world. TechCrunch reports, “Europol and the U.S. Justice Department, with help from six other countries, have disrupted and dismantled the GozNym malware, which they say […]
Email, as we know, is always susceptible to spam. Anyone using email would have to face spam almost on a regular basis. Email clients today are equipped with anti-spam filters that filter and move spam to separate folders. But since such filters are not 100 percent effective, it’s always best for email users to know […]
Baltimore was hit by a Ransomware attack on Tuesday, the officials have closed most city servers, said Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young. Young said that crucial function like; police, fire department, EMS and 311 services – were still operating and employees are working to determine the source of cyber-attacks. “At the moment, we have not […]
In 2018 Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers announced that they have identified a spear phishing campaign that is targeting U.S. National security think tanks and academic institutions. Research indicates that the “threat actor might have interests in gathering intelligence related to not only North Korea but possibly wider in the Northeast Asia region.” According […]
Anyone who is on the internet is vulnerable to cyber attacks. Today, we depend on the internet for all kinds of things, including shopping, financial services and transactions, communication, entertainment etc. At work also, the internet plays a key role. Hence, it’s important that we stay secure, whenever we are on the internet. Here’s a […]
A new study from Barracuda Networks says Email security threats are both cheap and easy for cyber attackers to conduct, and found that 87% of companies have faced those threats in the past year. The study, conducted across Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, with 634 team managers, executives, and individual contributors and found that […]
A phishing attack led to the data breach, seems like the trend is not going to end any sooner. This time a school was attacked and the students’ social security numbers, addresses, and more were leaked by the hackers. The school in question is California’s San Diego Unified School District, the phishing attack has led […]
HackerCombat recently wrote sharing tips for safe online shopping during the Black Friday- Cyber Monday shopping season. Yes, as we had mentioned there, the November- December shopping season witnesses a surge in shopping and consequently hackers also try their best to make the most of this season, attempting some hacking and data breach, which would […]
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 […]
Almost everyone today knows that the internet is full of viruses, all kinds of malware (simple as well as sophisticated ones) and different sorts of scams. There are hackers all around who are waiting to get a chance to prowl upon anyone with a vulnerability in their system/network. Today, the situation is even more complicated […]
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, […]
As 2018 approaches, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has called upon citizens in the U.S. to be alert and on the lookout for new highly-sophisticated email, likely to be a phishing scam. They will be sending mass emails to swindle of personal information on the pretext of a tax refund. Every day people fall victim […]
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 […]
The email informs the recipient that if your account is not verified in 24 hours then you will be termed as a fraudulent user and your email account will be taken down. However, if you click on the “verify” button, you can resolve the issue. Let us inform you that this email is just another […]
A fake email from American Express warns users of an ‘Unusual Activity’ on their account – The email asks users to click the link in the email body, put their information so their account can be secured from hackers.. but actually, the email is fake and website in the email body is a phishing link. Suspicious activity […]
ProofPoint researchers released a report on Tuesday, which revealed that cybercriminals are now hijacking the Brazilian internet connections by altering their DNS (domain name system) settings. These kinds of attacks are termed as pharming attacks. Pharming Attakcs: Pharming attacks are designed to attract victims towards fake websites. These fake websites are usually replicas of banks […]
Lately, an email from Amazon has been hitting the inbox of unsuspecting users all over the world. This email has been masqueraded as an order notification message from the famed marketplace Amazon.com. In this email, recipients are thanked for placing the order at Amazon and they are informed that their order details can be viewed […]