Browsing tag
A relatively simple and yet threatening smartphone scam has emerged in which the victim gets scammed twice. The scam involves stealing an iPhone first and then manipulating the user into believing that the phone has been found. The process This is a scam that does not involve any hi-tech hacking or infiltration or any infection […]
Twitter account verification means your account will get a blue verified badge. Currently, anyone can apply for this verification, yet it depends on the Twitter team to decide whether you will be awarded a blue badge or not. The seekers of the elusive badge have now become the target of cyber criminals who have launched […]
WhatsApp has lately become the prime target of malicious threat actors and scammer probably due to the widespread global following that the platform enjoys. Eset Security researchers are unearthing one scam after another that is making use of WhatsApp. On the other hand, scammers are coming up with innovative new strategies to lure victims towards […]
It is safe to say that over 80% of our lives are now stored in the cloud. Work and study are now conducted online. Universities such as Bradley University are making it possible to pursue an FNP degree of your choice without leaving the comfort of your home. Unfortunately, there has been a lot of […]
Ronald Antoniello from Miller County, Arkansas, United States, has received 300 years in jail in child pornography case. The verdict was announced by a Miller County jury on Wednesday. The 73-years old accused claimed that the never touched or sexually abused a child ever and that he was only interested in child porn out of […]
A Russian spammer Vitaly Popov has been exploiting popular sites by sending fake traffic for the past six years now and he likes to refer to his spamming tricks as Creative Marketing. In fact, his own website “ilovevitaly(dot)com” is identical to Google. You can say that this Russian site is a clone of Google. The […]
Bitcoin (Cryptocurrency) Mining malware is back and it is much more full of vengeance than it was before. Research by security experts at Sophos suggests that countless Seagate Central NAS devices have been identified to be carrying the cryptocurrency mining malware. The malicious software has been dubbed as Miner-C. It has been learned that the […]
No there is no Gold Version for WhatsApp — If you have received an invitation from a friend it’s because their account has been compromised. So Don’t fall for it! Recently HackRead’s Ryan received a message on WhatsApp from one of his contacts during a group chat. The message asked him to click on a link in order to […]
Coinbitclip Trojan: Is it really A Grave Threat to BitCoin Processor — Going by the precautionary tactics adopted by Bitcoin, it certainly is a threat Infostealer Coinbitclip, a Trojan that has been developed primarily to access and steal the Bitcoin Wallets, is emerging as a grave threat to the peer-to-peer, decentralized virtual currency exchange Bitcoin. […]
Whether it has reached you as “My First Video,” “My Video,” or “Private Video,” all these refer to a malicious Facebook scam Previous week HackRead informed users around the world about the ‘Account Violation’ Policy phishing scam that was circulating on Facebook, which compelled users to send in details of their login credentials to the […]
Sorry Folks No Range Rovers being Given away—Stay Away from Free Range Rover Competition on Facebook The Facebook page of Free Range Rover is fake and definitely not offering Range Rovers. It is just a scam that is currently circulating on the social network and promises of giving away two Range Rovers only by liking […]
The social network giant Facebook is all out to prevent its users from becoming targets of malicious actors’ scam campaigns It has been identified by consumers that there are certain ads and pages that are actually scam campaigns and users are worried that the clothing ads on Facebook don’t really sell clothes at unbelievably low […]
Scammers installing credit card skimmer device caught on CCTV by Police An incredibly quick act of installing debit/credit stealing device was caught by the CCTV cameras, which were installed at a petrol station in Miami-Dade, US. Miami Beach Police identified that scammers are equipped with such effective credit and debit card stealing tactics that it […]
The infamous hacker, popularly known as Segate, Oreon and Predator, has pleaded guilty finally in front of a New York judge. The 34-year-old Ercan Findikoglu was accused of 18 charges including accessing customer information and PINs from their debit/credit cards and withdrawing cash from ATMs worldwide. He was also accused of targeting prominent US financial […]
SnapChat Employee Hacked — Crucial SnapChat Employee Payroll Details Stolen after Targeted Phishing Scam The latest victim of malicious phishing campaigns is the LA-based social media firm SnapChat. In an official blog post, SnapChat revealed that a crafty phishing campaign has led to hackers obtaining payroll details of SnapChat employees. “One of our employees fell […]
Watch out for latest WhatsApp scam tricking users into opening malware link sent by ”friends” The favorite app of all youngsters and adults alike, WhatsApp, has come under the hammer of scammers yet again. Reportedly, WhatsApp users have become targets of a new scam campaign in which they are tricked into revealing personal information and […]
A research group has accused Verizon of helping crooks and cyber criminals of aiding in their activities by routing over four million IP addresses through their network. Verizon has been featuring in news headlines for all the wrong reasons lately. In the latest event, a secret report published by The Spamhaus Project has accused Verizon of aiding hackers […]
Crooks are targeting English and Portuguese speaking Facebook users with “Holidays special offers malware scam.” It’s that time of the year when social media is full of free stuff from marketers who want to gather as many leads as possible and possibly convert them later on — Giveaways or discounts are the best marketing practices […]
An article published by The Guardian in 2011 on the topic Cybercrime: is it out of control? received a nasty response from a hacker who inserted a malicious URL inside one of the syndicated link embedments in the article. The article published by the website was headlined “Cybercrime: Is it out of Control?” and the hacker […]
Cricket South Africa page got hacked earlier today where hackers posted racist and sexual content on the page which surprised many of the team’s fans. The Cricket South Africa Facebook page has over 3 million likes and on Wednesday morning unusual posts began to get shared on the page which continued on for 2 hours after […]
Visual ads directing users to malicious sites are things of past, cyber-criminals have added a new dimension to this: the video ads. Video ads are mostly created for selling products or services, but hackers are now using them to direct users towards malicious sites. This was identified in an attack laid down two weeks back […]