Anyone who has had any contact with Amazon knows that, from time to time, you may come across scammers who parasitically exploit the marketplace’s popularity. They defraud all sorts of users: sellers, buyers, regular users, and one-time visitors. Even if you’ve never logged on to Amazon (real talk, though: never?), some of these scams can affect you, too. We’ll focus first on … [Read more...] about Phishing and online scams on Amazon
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Phishing giveaways of PUBG Mobile items
Free cheese exists only in mousetraps, but businesses everywhere have been desensitizing people to the idea of freemium cheese for years. The freemium approach is especially prevalent in the gaming industry. Game developers and publishers commonly offer users minor but genuinely free goodies — the expectation being that the gamers will get sucked in and end up spending on … [Read more...] about Phishing giveaways of PUBG Mobile items
COVID-19 in spam and phishing related to deliveries
It would be hard to find a sphere of human activity untouched by the coronavirus pandemic, and express delivery services are no exception. Transport flows between countries have been disrupted, and there is a shortage of cargo planes as people and companies continue to order goods both domestically and from abroad. Demand for some items has even shot up. The spikes in demand … [Read more...] about COVID-19 in spam and phishing related to deliveries
How e-mail accounts are hacked with phishing
Good old e-mail isn’t the sexiest offering in the digital world, but amid a whole bunch of newer apps and services — the instant messengers, the social networks — it’s standing its ground as an essential tool for modern-day life. Most of us still have to use e-mail, at the very least to be able to register new accounts for all those services, apps, and social networks out … [Read more...] about How e-mail accounts are hacked with phishing
Hacker Ordered to Pay Back Nearly £1 Million to Phishing Victims
A prolific hacker who carried out phishing scams against hundreds of companies worldwide has been ordered to pay back more than $1.1 million (over £922,000) worth of cryptocurrencies to his victims.Grant West, a 27-year-old resident of Kent, England, targeted several well-known companies around the world since 2015 to obtain the financial data of tens of thousands of customers … [Read more...] about Hacker Ordered to Pay Back Nearly £1 Million to Phishing Victims
Unpatched Flaw in UC Browser Apps Could Let Hackers Launch Phishing Attacks
A bug hunter has discovered and publicly disclosed details of an unpatched browser address bar spoofing vulnerability that affects popular Chinese UC Browser and UC Browser Mini apps for Android.Developed by Alibaba-owned UCWeb, UC Browser is one of the most popular mobile browsers, specifically in China and India, with a massive user base of more than half a billion users … [Read more...] about Unpatched Flaw in UC Browser Apps Could Let Hackers Launch Phishing Attacks
Wipro Attackers Have Operated Under the Radar for Years
The adversaries have the hallmarks of an advanced, organized group, with well-established infrastructure. Source link … [Read more...] about Wipro Attackers Have Operated Under the Radar for Years
Latest Qbot Variant Evades Detection, Infects Thousands
Ever-changing Qbot trojan has been spotted in a fresh campaign with a new “context aware” delivery technique. Source link … [Read more...] about Latest Qbot Variant Evades Detection, Infects Thousands
New Apple ID Phishing Effort Compromises Over 100 Sites
Security firm Trend Micro outlined a new phishing scam that has seen the perpetrators compromise over 100 sites in their attempts to gain access to users' Apple ID accounts. While Apple IDs are relatively popular targets for phishing scams, Trend Micro's analysis offers some interesting detail on the approaches used by the criminals. We’ve identified a total of 110 compromised … [Read more...] about New Apple ID Phishing Effort Compromises Over 100 Sites