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Combatting Email Spam – What you should know

It is difficult to protect yourself from spammers. You can register on the site and leave your mail, subscribe to the newsletter, and become a victim of pranksters. In any case, your email address will be publicly available, which will lead to spam in your inbox. However, it is not a reason to panic – […]

Thousands of web domains were hijacked due to GoDaddy vulnerability

An unknown attacker has exploited this weakness to deploy multiple malicious email campaigns At the end of last year a campaign of bomb threats via email provoked massive evacuations and closures of activities in hundreds of organizations in the United States, Canada and some areas of Latin America, the fact was reported by researchers from […]

Researcher Shows How Facebook Worm Attack Can Spam Your Wall

A security researcher has published the proof-of-concept code which demonstrates how to create a fully functional Facebook worm. It’s a clickjack bomb that can spam your wall by exploiting a vulnerability on Facebook. The researcher, who works under the pseudonym of Lasq, says he has seen this flaw getting abused on the platform by a […]

SPAM POSTS THREATEN WITH DETONATING BOMBS IF BITCOINS ARE NOT PAID

This extortion scheme has received massive attention from the media, although it has not achieved so many funds Police departments across the United States mention that they have received multiple reports on emails that include bomb threats against different organizations. According to experts in digital forensics from the International Institute of Cyber Security, the operators […]

New Gandcrab Ransomware Attack Windows Users via Compromised Websites

Gandcrab Ransomware Attack being targeted users via compromised websites and leveraged multiple MySQL vulnerabilities to attack various windows users. Most of the small-medium businesses websites are not aware of new vulnerabilities that released to compromise the websites. Gandcrab Ransomware is wide spreading Ransomware nowadays with newly updated futures under constant development to target various countries. It […]

711 Million Emails Exposed In “Largest” Spamming Campaign On The Internet

Image: List of emails associated with Roads And Maritime Services, Australia Even though our email services have become smarter and more conscious, spamming is still a thing. That’s the reason a Paris-based researcher Benkow spotted a huge lot of 711 million (711,477,622 to be exact) email accounts lying in plain text files on a server […]

Over 700 Million Email Addresses Exposed From SpamBot Server

A huge database of 630 million email addresses used by a spambot server to send large amounts of spam has been posted online in what appears to be one of the largest data dumps of its kind. A French security researcher who uses the Benkow mango online identifies the database in an “open and accessible […]

Russian spammer registered ɢoogle.com Domain using IDN Homograph Attacks

Nowadays spammer takes place to initiate an Advanced technique to create a spam and phishing emails to target a large number of community in worldwide and possibly leads to biggest attacks. As a matter of first importance, it is normal for spammers to target Google Analytics with messages that induce the site proprietor to take after […]

Twitter suspends 125,000 accounts for promoting terrorist acts

Twitter announced that since mid-2015 it has suspended over 125,000 accounts involved in promoting violent content. The social media giant Twitter has claimed to suspend over 125,000 ISIS accounts since mid-2015. The reason is quite simply that all the accounts in question were found violating Twitter rules and spreading hate plus terrorism-related content. On its official […]

Verizon Aiding Crooks By Routing Millions of IP Addresses?

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 […]

Microsoft Getting Desperate To Force Upgrade PCs to Windows 10

It’s not surprising to know that Microsoft is desperate to have Windows 10 on user’s PCs. As for users still running Windows 8.1 or 7, there is only two option left either they should upgrade now or later, there is no option of terminating the update.  For users updating their systems to an upgraded version of […]

How To Block Spam Messages in Android and iPhone

Just like irritating email spams, SMS spams range from social engineering swindles to unsought advertising. I’m pretty sure that just like me, you too are fed up with these spam rings. Most spam messages prompt users to forward them, contain links and other frustrating hoaxes. Along with the rise of SMS spams, there came many apps […]