Phishing
Watch Out for Fake Emails Offering £1,000 Gift Cards From Asda
Asda Stores Limited, a retail supermarket chain based in Leeds in the United Kingdom, issued a warning to its customers in early September 2020. The store chain warned its customers to be aware that there is an... Read more
Online Design Platform Canva Abused by Hackers for Phishing
Bad actors, especially those focusing on scams and phishing emails, have been shifting their focus on exploiting cloud services and online tools for their campaigns. After a rise in phishing emails using content... Read more
Watch Out For Another Dropbox Phishing Email Titled 'Po.Pdf'
It is a sad fact of life that as the sophistication of the technologies available to us grows, so does the ingenuity and determination of bad actors to exploit and victimize regular users. Once upon a time, the... Read more
Coronavirus Phishing Scams Decline After March Peak
As soon as the Coronavirus pandemic started, and people became home-bound, social distancing, working from home, and receiving online classes, crooks had a field day. Cybercrime spiked, and most cyber-attack campaigns... Read more
Watch out for the 'Vote Anonymous About Black Lives Matter' Phishing Email That Is Gaining Momentum
Cybercriminals watch the news. They watched it when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out and used the virus as a central part of some of their scams. They are watching it now as well. The protests sparked by George Floyd's... Read more
Phishing Campaigns Use COVID-19 and FedEx, DHL, and UPS Fake Issues to Spread Malware
We are living through a pandemic. Coronavirus, or more precisely COVID-19, has gripped the world and caused ripples globally. People get encouraged to stay home and implement social distancing in their daily routines.... Read more
Spearphishing Campaign Takes Advantage of Coronavirus Fears to Spread Lokibot Infostealer
Coronavirus-related cybercrime has skyrocketed in the past few months. Malicious individuals forsake human decency and take advantage of the panicked state of the world, and the constant need for information. Cyber... Read more
A Citibank Phishing Scam Attempts to Extract Personal Information
Yet another phishing scam targeting Citibank customers was doing the rounds recently. It was discovered by a researcher going by the Twitter handle MalwareHunterTeam, and other cybersecurity sources also reported on... Read more
Students of an Ivy League University Are Bombarded with Fake Job Offers via Phishing Emails
Are you a Dartmouth student? Are you ready to start a career linked to your degree? If you are, you need to look out for phishing emails that might offer high-paying jobs. It is possible that the schemers behind these... Read more
Attention: Schemers Use the Accounts of Your LinkedIn Contacts to Send You Phishing Messages
You probably already know that you should never interact with messages that come from unknown senders, but what do you do when someone from your contacts sends you a link or a file and asks to view it? If you want to... Read more
How to Recognize and Prevent Common LinkedIn Phishing Emails
Recently, we've been getting news of new LinkedIn-related phishing attacks. According to the news, the hackers use an array of assorted schemes in order to pressure their targets into visiting web pages laced with... Read more
Top Scams of 2019 and How They Can Put Your Virtual Security at Risk
We have talked about some of the biggest online scams that tricked multiple people out there before, but it is time we update that information. Although we're not even halfway through 2019 yet, the cybersecurity... Read more
How to Tell If a Website Is Safe
We've come to accept that certain images and symbols mean certain things. A picture of a padlock, for example, is regularly associated with security. It might seem like the most natural thing in the world, but this... Read more
Got $50? That's Enough to Buy Someone's Online Identity
Having your online identity compromised can bring you a lot of grief, and in some cases, financial damages. Few people think about this when they're signing up for various online services using weak passwords or when... Read more
7 Most Important Online Security Practices Everyone Should Follow
There were close to 4,200,000,000 active Internet users by the end of 2017, according to the statistics provided by internetworldstats.com, and this number is likely to increase by the end of 2018. With more than half... Read more
Top-Clicked Phishing Report Shows How Easily Computer Users Are Scammed
Phishing shouldn't be such an effective attack in theory. When you take a closer look and consider a few things, you'll see that in a typical scenario, there are far too many easy-to-notice factors that give the... Read more
How Identity Thieves Use Weak Passwords to Exploit Personal Information
The internet is filled with people who have bad intentions. Sometimes they only want to cause a bit of mischief, like hacking your facebook and texting the girls in your friend list for naughty pics. Other times they... Read more
