If you or your organization offers a subscriptions service, there are ways to protect yourself against a subscription bomb. Make sure to use opt in methods, which minimizes the amount of emails sent. Use reCAPTCHA security to prevent bots from signing up. You can also employ hidden fields. Hu...
How To Protect Yourself From Text Scammers and Hackers Text scamming is everywhere and is becoming difficult to avoid. In April of this year, scammers sent over 11.36 billion spam texts, with the average person receiving nearly 41 spam texts per month [*]. That’s roughly 10 fake text ...
An example of the current emails being sent by Fancy Lazarus (Source: Proofpoint) The gang first threatened a small DDoS attack to show the capability exists. Then if no payment was received within seven days, it threatened a larger "2TB per second" attack that would shut down the victim...
The purpose of most bots’ use of fake IPs is to no longer be traced back by law enforcement agencies. Usually, hackers use this type of proxy service because they don’t want their tracks being followed, but some companies are using them too! Fake IPs are very common on servers hosted ...
By the time the second switch is activated, the hackers have full control, so any attempt by the original account holder to regain access fails, since emails and other messages from Twitter with password-reset information go to the hacker. Access Now says in its report that the victims worked...
It is being distributed under the filename “Internal PDF Viewer” and while the researchers don’t discuss distribution channels, it’s safe to assume it’s being sent via phishing emails and malicious websites. Three-stage attack The caveat with RustBucket is that in order to work - the ...
With the ever-increasing number of people going online, it important to have a community like OTA that continuously alerts or protects those same people from cyber-criminals, scammers and hackers, who are every day finding new ways of carrying out their malicious activities. Online users can hel...
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DefCon: didn’t certain hackers already express distrust in the presence of LEO at these conventions? Security Research: this has always been a shady area in the UK, as it is necessary to share virus code and exploits to learn anything, but the act of sharing electronically could be constru...
By being aware about data breaches and other incidents where credentials might be leaked, organisations can reduce the potential of falling victim to any sort of attack or fraud. SEE:WHO chief emails claiming to offer coronavirus drug advice plant keyloggers on your PC ...