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Notoriety is what hackers thrive on, no matter if it fetches them money or their dirty deeds flash on the news headlines. Network hacks are on the rise and increasing in severity and frequently each year. In 2017 a joint study from Accenture and Ponemon Institute concluded that an average company experiences 130 security breaches, […]
Malicious campaign operators have devised a new method for sending documents with malicious files Phishing campaign operators found ways to prevent malware-loaded Office documents from being detected by some security software solutions; according to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, attackers are deleting links from the relationship file […]
The threat of ransomware attack is growing but do you know what is ransomware and how you can protect yourself from this growing threat? If you’ve been following the news on malware scams and hacks from across the world, chances are that you might have come across the term ‘ransomware’. It’s deemed as the biggest […]
The popular Google Translate service is used as a tool to deploy cyberattacks Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security reported the emergence of a phishing campaign in which attackers use the Google Translate service to extract Google and Facebook access credentials from their victims. The cybersecurity specialist known […]
Dailymotion, the rival to Youtube’s video-sharing empire, has become a victim of a cyber attack called credential stuffing. It is an attack using the usernames and passwords from other data breaches against Dailymotion’s login system. This is highly effective since people usually reuse the same username and passwords across multiple web services. This same attack […]
Jigsaw, subsidiary of alphabet launched phishingquiz helping user’s to identify what’s fake, the program loads eight questions and asks the user’s to identify it is a phishing or a legitimate one. A phishing attack is one of the dangerous social engineering attacks that leads to capture a victim’s username and password that will get store […]
Ransomware is a reality and threat actors are using it quite avidly and frequently nowadays in order to make easy money. According to the new findings of MalwareHunterTeam, there is in-development ransomware that can encrypt your files, steal credit card information and steal PayPal credentials using the phishing page. The ransomware is not extraordinary in its […]
Spam Protection It is no secret spammers can be very harmful for any website, by flooding the comment section, consuming website resources, and giving way to a lot of vulnerabilities (a big number of bots with registered user status can perturb the functionality of the site). Needless to say that spam is highly damaging to […]
A school district in the United States has suffered a cyber attack in which unknown hackers managed to steal a trove of personal data belonging to over 500,000 staff and students. The targeted school was San Diego Unified School District in California whose database was accessed by hackers just before Christmas allowing them to steal 10 years […]
Last month, November 26, 2018, we published here in Hackercombat the story about cybercriminals phishing all the way, while their potential victims are making a lot of shopping online in preparation of the coming Holiday Season. Our story today is a follow-up of our previous one, this time with Tony Anscombe, Global Security Evangelist & […]
Another day, another email scam – This time, wicked scammers have stolen over $1,000,000 from Save the Children, an international non-governmental organization based in London, United Kingdom. This happened after scammers compromised email address of one of the Save the Children employees and generated fake invoices and other documents to trick the charity organization into sending 1 million […]
Academic organizations around the world have been attacked since last May Digital forensics specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report that hacker groups linked to North Korea have deployed a spear phishing campaign against multiple academic institutions around the world. The attack campaign includes emails with an attached document, trying to trick the […]
Malicious actors have shown particular attention to the drug development industry Information security and digital forensics specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report that multiple groups of malicious hackers are launching attack campaigns against different companies, especially organizations belonging to the pharmaceutical industry, sector in which attack campaigns have grown exponentially in the […]
Virus infection, ransomware, phishing or cryptojacking malware are not the only techniques that cybercriminals used to earn money from their victims, a classic case of crimes works too. One such successful technique is extortion, a pure threat against someone’s information in exchange for money. This classic scam, when used through an Internet medium such as […]
A new study by PhishLabs nearly half of the phishing sites using SSL HTTPS connection and shows padlock which indicates a means of telling it as a legitimate site. The reason for the alarming rise is because still the internet user’s believe in the padlock “look for the lock” and believe the website is legitimate […]
Researchers have discovered a phishing campaign aimed at the streaming service; although it is really simple-crafted, its dissemination is important Researchers from a cybersecurity and digital forensics firm discovered a phishing campaign aimed at Spotify, the popular music streaming service. In this campaign, discovered in early November, the attackers decided to use emails to try […]
Malicious hackers launching a new phishing campaign that targets Spotify customers to hijacking the user’s account and steal the credentials. Spotify customers targeted via emails along with malicious links that redirect into a deceptive website which leads users to give away their credentials. Once users enter their credentials, username and password will be sent to […]
Gmail, as we know, is a popular and commonly preferred email platform around the world. That’s why any news about a bug in this platform is bound to create chaos among users. And, that’s exactly the case this time. Software developer Tim Cotten has discovered a bug Gmail’s ‘From:’ header structure that can allow the […]
Phishing attacks anchor itself by its two strong instruments: Pretending to be from a popular brand The clever presentation making its message believable Without these two aspects, phishing attempts will be no better than the regular “viagra” spam emails that are filling-up the mailbox of billions of email users globally. The best example of phishers […]
Former Lee Davis High School, Virginia teacher Christopher Brannan set to plead guilty to the federal charges of hacking into the computers of Celebrities including Emma Watson and non-celebrities leading to their private data in the Celebgate hacking scandal. 31 years old Christopher Brannan worked at Lee Davis High School for 2 years as a special education teacher. CBS […]
Cybercriminals are distributing new phishing scam related to natural disasters that abusing Microsoft Azure Blog Hosting and also attempt to steal the login credentials. Victims abused by forcing them to involved with fake donations or steal funds directly via fraudulent donations in order to steal the credit card numbers. This Phishing campaign Lures Florida Hurricane Michael using malicious PDF documents […]