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Nowadays all our activities highly depend on the Internet that includes shopping financial services, communication, entertainment and number of other services. The Internet empowers several techniques; on the other hand, it poses certain dangers. According to the recent reports, we can see a massive increase in various threats and the sophistication method followed by the […]
No one wants to believe they’d fall victim to a phishing attacks. However, phishing attacks are on the rise, and are more sophisticated than ever. There’s a good reason phishing attacks are touted as one of the most common security challenges companies and individuals face – there are ample opportunities for cybercriminals to maximize profits. […]
Amazon says it was a “serious” attack targeting 100s of sellers. The American e-commerce and technology giant Amazon.com, Inc. has announced that it was hit by a fraud attack in which unknown hackers targeted over 100 sellers stealing their earnings they made through sales or loans. The attack, according to Bloomberg, took place between May […]
Both in business and personally, fraud is, unfortunately, an everyday hazard and a byproduct of advances in tech mean fraud is more prevalent than ever before. There are steps you can take to keep safe from fraudsters and these are becoming an essential part of life for businesses and individuals. 1: Paperwork, money, and checks […]
Website security audit specialists reported the presence of a new fraudulent campaign directed against emergent YouTube content creators. According to reports, some YouTubers are receiving a supposed message from the video platform about a request for monetizing the content of the channel. “We have evaluated your channel and have detected some anomalies in your account […]
Google Chrome’s mobile browser has been targeted with a relatively simple phishing technique by developer Jim Fisher. According to Fisher, the exploit involves tricking victims into handing over their private information by manipulating the trusted websites of the user. By using a combination of coding and screenshots, the victims can be easily deceived, explained Fisher […]
A new form of a sophisticated phishing attack on Android Chrome let hackers hide the original address bar’ screen space by displaying its own fake URL bar when the user scrolls down the web page. Security researcher James fisher demonstrated this phishing attack by hosting his own domain (jameshfisher.com), and he exploits the flaw in […]
The Banking and Financial sectors were hit with a constant stream of cyber attacks when compared to any of the other industries. 25.7 percent of all malware attacks last year focused on Banks and Financial Services Organizations. According to Intsights Q1 2019 report, the credentials leak doubled to any of the quarters of 2018. The […]
Cryptojacking Boosts Botnet Expansion Botnets have been essential tools in distributed denial of service attacks for many years. With the continued success of DDoS attacks, it was only a matter of time before botnets were used for other malicious activities. In the past year, we’ve seen botnets used for generating spam and phishing emails, DNS […]
Bodybuilding.com will contact all former and current users – The website has over seven million registered users. The world-renowned fitness platform Bodybuilding.com has suffered a data breach in which personal data of registered users has been accessed. The breach was identified in February 2019 and after conducting an investigation it was revealed that it was a […]
Bodybuilding.com, the internet’s biggest online store and an online forum for fitness and bodybuilding enthusiasts, recently became aware of the Data Security Incident that impacted its IT systems and announced that some of their customer related information may have been accessed cause of this. It is one of the internet’s most visited sites, which has […]
ERMProtect Launches a new extensive list of animated chalkboard videos, digital games, cyber dictionaries, phishing tests and quizzes that allow employees to recognize the tactics followed by hackers. The educational games were launched to show the employees how to work safely online and to minimize the risk of triggering an organizational data breach. “The games […]
PayPal Phishing Casts a Wide Net One of the most successful phishing methods is to co-opt a well-respected brand. PayPal topped the list by a wide margin in a recent analysis of over 100 million endpoints by Comodo Threat Intelligence Lab. PayPal was impersonated in 39% of all such attacks, with Microsoft a distant second […]
In the age of regular cyber attacks and constant digital threats, it’s no wonder that businesses find themselves spending more and more on defense. Cyber security spending by businesses climbed to $13 million per company in 2018, an increase of 12% on the previous year. It’s an expensive necessity however Cynet is offering a free […]
The Internet is an addictive world due to its unlimited and lucrative opportunities for people from almost every facet of life. Some use the Internet to make money, some use it to keep in touch with their loved ones, and some to find love – and then there are those who use it for nefarious […]
CMS based sites such as WordPress and Joomla are the popular targets for cybercriminals, they hijack those sites and inject malicious contents. ThreatLabZ researchers detected a campaign that targets WordPress and Joomla sites to distribute Shade/Troldesh ransomware, backdoors, redirectors, and a variety of phishing pages. Hackers use to hijack several hundreds of CMS sites and […]
Gustuff Android malware from Russia with love. Group-IB, a cybersecurity firm, has discovered a new breed of Trojan horse malware called Gustuff, which specifically targets Android phones to steal banking credentials and digital assets of users. The malware targets customers of cryptocurrency exchanges and mainstream international banks. As per the analysis of Group-IB, the malware […]
Phishers for decades have honed their skills of persuasion, that is why the art of fooling people through an Internet-messaging method is a huge business by cybercriminals. There is money to be earned by collecting personally identifiable information, either sell them to 3rd parties or use it for extortion and blackmail, especially if the victims […]
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 […]
According to cybersecurity specialists, in collaboration with an ethical hacker from the International Institute of Cyber Security, malicious hackers are showing special interest in abusing legitimate protocols to increase frequency and effectiveness of brute force attacks. This abusive behavior has focused primarily on the IMAP protocol (Internet Message Access Protocol), which is responsible for bypassing […]
attackers targeting legacy protocols with stolen credential dumps to increase the speed and efficiency of the brute force attacks. Based on Proofpoint study, IMAP is the most abused protocol, IMAP is the protocol that bypasses MFA and lock-out options for failed logins. These intelligent new brute force attacks bring a new approach to the traditional […]