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The purpose of this scam message is to steal Google Account Login credentials. Users are urged to click on a fake link that leads to a rogue Google Account login page — When users submit their login details, scammers collect it to hijack their genuine Google accounts. A fake message has been doing the rounds […]
An online gaming/gambling site lost $1 million in bitcoin to an attacker who exploited its random number generation (RNG) system. A leading and apparently the biggest online gambling website Primedice Bitcoin has suffered $1 million loss after one of its members (players) discovered a way to game the system. The user disguised himself as “Hufflepuff” […]
The latest spam campaign is equipped with the Dridex banking malware and targeting company accountants through deceptive emails. According to Heimdal Security, this spam email is an unauthentic scanned document, which actually is a macros-enabled.doc. The email attempts to pass as a genuine one under the subject title “Scanned from a Xerox Multifunction Printer.” The email also […]
Studies show women are more vulnerable to phishing scams than men and same has happened with Vivian Gabb who told media how she was sent a “phishing email” by scammers and was conned to give away her life savings. According to Get Safe Online, an internet safety advice, over 51% of UK citizens have been the […]
Plex Media Sever forum’s registered users received an email from the firm announcing that a breach of their system has exposed private data linked to their accounts. The company’s official email instructs users to immediately change their passwords even if they have stored them in an encrypted form, that is, hashed and salted. Also, the […]
In this era of government surveillance, remaining anonymous has become next to impossible for every Internet user. There is almost nothing we can do online and/or offline that can go undetected by these surveillance agencies. Even tools like VPN (Virtual Private Network) and Tor becomes inadequate to protect our online privacy because once the IP […]
Remember those rumors about Anonymous hacktivists creating their own social media? Well, they aren’t! However, some privacy advocates are indeed working on a platform dedicated to protecting your privacy and they have called it Minds.com. Over the past couple of years, online privacy has become one of the major concerns among Internet users throughout the world. The issues […]
The meltdown of Donald Trump’s empire is slowly but continuously gaining momentum and the latest to add more misery to the real estate mogul’s already swelled up problems is the hack attack. Reportedly, the Trump chain of hotels has become the victim of latest hack attack by cybercriminals and a major credit card breach has […]
Links traced to “Animal Farm” group and State Sponsored cyber criminals who already have targeted Syrian and Iranian computers in 2013. Bratislava, Slovakia-based security firm ESET’s researchers have identified a very sophisticated Trojan that attacked Iranian and Syrian subjects in 2013 while rumor is that the group is a secret wing of the French Intelligence service. […]
Phishing attacks have become a common norm now but lately, a different kind of social engineering hack has been identified, which uses a mobile phone to trap you. Now this can be termed as a seriously scary trick for hacking email accounts. This Symantec video explains that a new trick has been developed by attackers […]
Nowadays wearable devices, especially fitness checking devices, are very much in vogue. However, security and technology experts are prompting warnings about the vulnerable nature of these devices to cyber-attacks. According to the estimation of the International Data Corporation/IDC, around 72.1million wearable tracker devices like Samsung Gear, Apple watch, Nike Fuel, Fitbit, and Jawbone will be […]
The pro-Palestine hackers from AnonGhost are known for their hacks against Israel and other high-profile websites to spread free Palestine messages. The famous hacktivist group AnonGhost hacked and defaced the official website of United Nations designated for the Kingdom of Jordan, leaving a message in support of free Palestine. In an exclusive conversation, one of the hackers from […]
Recently, a researcher revealed that Google might be spying on all of its Chromium web browser users by stealth downloading audio listeners onto their computer, which then transmits all the audio from computer’s microphone back to the Google servers. Well, this determines that Google had given itself the right to listen to everything happening within […]
Someone hacked the official Twitter account of UK based controversial Television personality, The Sun’s columnist Katie Hopkins and threatened to leak a sex tape of her. Katie Hopkins, the queen of controversies had her Twitter account hacked Sunday morning where hackers posted several tweets claiming they have access to a sex tape which involves Hopkins. The verified Twitter account of Hopkins […]
Android Bug Bounty Program is here and it’s your time to report bugs and get paid. Google’s bug bounty or security rewards program that previously gave away millions of dollars to researcher who identified vulnerabilities in Google’s products such as Chrome since 2010 has been re-launched. The program has been extended now and will include […]
Android phone users have long shared the view that, despite the continual announcements of ongoing security breaches in an evermore technological world, their devices remained relatively secure. This confidence is likely to have shattered by today’s news that up to 600 million users may be vulnerable to a cracking attack, primarily thanks to the widely […]
‘Stolen Foxconn certs’ used for embedding Duqu 2.0 malware into Windows PC — The crafty super-sophisticated malware infiltrated Kaspersky Labs. Reportedly, Duqu 2.0 software was taken on using legal digital certificates issued to the world’s leading Chinese electronics giant Fixconn. The list of Foxconn’s customers includes Dell, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Sony and BlackBerry. This code-signing was […]
Due to a security flaw, researcher Austin Epperson took control of a page of Uber’s website and displayed the ad of its arch-rival Lyft. Security researcher Austin Epperson proved that Uber’s website was exploitable by hacking one of its micro-site. However, Epperson didn’t steal personal data nor did he spread any malware but to prove his […]
Joe Siegrist from LastPass, a famous password manager program, admitted that its database comprising of email addresses, server per user salts, password reminders and authentication hashes were hacked. Joe Siegrist from LastPast wrote in his blog post published yesterday that “investigation has shown … that LastPass account email addresses, password reminders, server per user salts, […]
Facebook timelines nowadays are displaying a new phishing scam message with the title “Here’s the Link HeHe.” The text of this scam message varies in all its versions because if one message asks you to check out a “foolish movieclip,” then the other asks to check out a “silly woman,” whereas in some the users […]
In April 2015, we reported how Ask.com toolbar is working as a malware to hijack your computer. Now proving our claim right, previous Ask Jeeves toolbar versions have been declared by Microsoft as malware which will be taken as a security threat and killed wherever found on a computer. Updating its Malware Protection Center site on June […]