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A new campaign with the similarities of MuddyWater spotted targetting organizations in Pakistan, Turkey, and Tajikistan. Attackers use various social engineering methods to trick the victims into enabling macros and activate payloads. Security researchers from TrendMicro spotted the campaign says that “we can assume that there is a connection between these new attacks and the […]
One of the most common tactics employed by notorious cybercriminals involves taking advantage of the popular trends and creating fraudulent websites/apps to trick users. It looks like some of the players have tried to exploit the confusion surrounding Meltdown and Sprectre CPU bugs. Forget buggy updates which are causing numerous problems to the users, Malwarebytes has […]
Catching phishing by observing certificate transparency logs. This tool is based on regex with effective standards for detecting phishing sites in real time using certstream. Installation $ cd /opt/ $ git clone https://github.com/6IX7ine/certstreamcatcher.git $ cd certstreamcatcher $ npm install npm package To install certstreamcatcher using npm run: npm install –save certstreamcatcher Try on npm […]
Living in a modern digital era of computers can bring a lot of risks including data exfiltration to you and your PC. Computers are extremely vulnerable, and if the person on the other side of your network knows how to find the exact loophole in the system – you may suffer from huge loss of data […]
Who wouldn’t be willing to acquire the digital cryptocurrency which currently values at around $16,900? But some people prefer to choose the bad way. The social engineers around the world are also filled with greed – a trait found in many humans. According to phishing tracking service CheckPhish, there has been a rise in the […]
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 […]
With every passing day, cybercriminals are getting sophisticated in their attacks; it can be phishing or malware attack, in the end, unsuspecting users are at risk. On November 13th, a 60-year-old woman was tricked into giving away her life savings of S$80,000 (USD 59,000 and Euro 50,000) after falling for a highly organized and sophisticated scam. It […]
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 […]
Phishruffus is a tool designed to identify threats and malicious DNS servers on the Internet that are used for the illicit practice of bank phishing. Usage: $ pip install -r requirements.txt $ ./phishruffus.py –listdns dns_servers.txt –timeout 5 Download Phishruffus Download Best WordPress Themes Free Download Download Best WordPress Themes Free Download Download WordPress Themes Free […]
With every passing day, hackers and cyber criminals are becoming more sophisticated in their attacks. Resultantly, they are getting their hands on highly critical and sensitive data from almost every institution around the world. According to a mid-year report by Risk Based Security (RBS), a Richmond Virginia based company who keeps an eye on data breaches, […]
Exclusive: The Bank of America is the 2nd largest bank in the United States by assets which makes it a lucrative target for cyber criminals. Today, HackRead has identified a phishing scam targeting the Bank of America customers. Cyber criminals are sending emails to unsuspecting users pretending to be representatives of the Bank of America. […]
If e-commerce had seven dirty words, chargeback (a demand by a credit-card provider for a retailer to make good the loss on a fraudulent or disputed transaction) would definitely be one of them. A chargeback is what happens when a credit card customer disputes a and your e-commerce store is forced to refund the transaction. […]
It is not uncommon for scammers to send phishing emails that trick the users into downloading a malicious link or simply open an attachment that will automatically launch a virus to infect the computer. However, sometimes, scammers are much less sophisticated and simply play on a user’s lack of knowledge regarding a few things. WhatsApp […]
A New MacOS Malware “OSX/Dok” Discovered to Steal Banking Credentials by cloning major Banking website which leads victims to install the Malicious Application into victims mobile Devices. This infection leads to potentially compromise the victims and leaks their sensitive data from their mobile platform. OSX/Dok Malware used to Attack Mac users via traditional Spam and […]
Nowadays attackers targeting users more innovatively through Emails and many other ways. This malware attack particularly targeting power sectors including Nuclear power stations. Attackers used Malicious Word documents in this attack with a different behavior this time. This attack was identified by Talos intelligence. There is no malicious code with attachment itself instead of it download file […]
The computer systems of UK parliament has suffered a massive cyber attack forcing the staff to quit their operation. The reports about attacks came on Friday night. However, MPs (Member of Parliament) were locked out from their parliamentary email accounts on Saturday. Those familiar with the situation state that the attack is “sustained and determined.” [irp posts=”46709″ […]
The cybercriminal community spends a lot of time developing scams to make sure their target falls for them. In the latest scam, a state Supreme Court judge was tricked into an email scam she believed came from a legitimate real estate lawyer. Resultantly she lost more than $1 million. The judge in the discussion is Lori Sattler, a 51-year-old Acting […]
Almost four days ago, HackRead reported that a new version of ransomware called Erebus has affected more than 153-Linux based networks and has targeted one South Korean web hosting company, NAYANA in particular. The ransomware caused a massive data infiltration whereby various multimedia files, databases, and other critical network-level information were encrypted. The attackers demanded a […]
Short Bytes: The security researchers at PhishLabs have uncovered a new type of Facebook phishing attack that uses the URL Padding technique. The tactic targets the mobile users and fools them by making the deceptive links look authentic. As a result, casual users end up visiting the web page and leaking their login credentials. As […]
Southern Oregon University has announced that it is the latest organization to fall victim to a business email compromise (BEC) attack after fraudsters tricked the educational establishment into transferring money into a bank account under their control. According to media reports, the university fell for the scam in late April when it wired $1.9 million […]