26 Nov Holiday Scam Season Is Here for All Shoppers The holiday shopping season is in full swing, with Black Friday and Cyber Monday just around the corner, and scammers have been getting ready to cash in from their fraud campaigns. […]
26 Nov Phishers Create Fake Sites as Bait for Holiday Shopping Deals While most users are familiar with phishing scams that attempt to steal a user’s login credentials, phishers also use emails to lure consumers to fake retail sites in order to steal their money or sell cheap knockoffs. […]
25 Nov Mozilla to Block Fingerprinters by Default in Firefox 72 As part of its Enhanced Tracking Protection feature, Mozilla is planning on blocking Fingerprinters by default in Firefox 72, which is slated to be released in January 2020. […]
25 Nov FortiGuard Used Hardcoded Key, XOR to Encrypt Communications Security researchers found that multiple security products from Fortinet use weak encryption and static keys to communicate with FortiGuard services in the cloud, such as AntiSpam, AntiVirus, and Web Filter. […]
25 Nov Scam Browser Notification Prompts Increased by 69% in 2019 Web browser notifications are increasingly being used to push unwanted ads for dating sites, scam sites, unwanted browser extensions, and even malware to users who subscribe to them. […]
25 Nov Ginp Android Banker Sets as Default SMS App, Steals All Text A new strain of mobile banking trojan called Ginp has been constantly refined to collect login credentials and credit card details. […]
24 Nov Silly Phishing Spotlight: Login to Unblock Microsoft Excel As part of our ongoing series to educate users about some of the more silly phishing scams out there, we bring a new one that states Excel is blocked unless you login and verify your details. […]
23 Nov Catch Restaurants Disclose Credit Card Stealing Malware Incident Catch Hospitality Group has disclosed that point-of-sale systems (POS) at NYC hotspots Catch NYC, Catch Rooftop, and Catch Steak were infected with malware that allowed attackers to steal credit card information from customers. […]
23 Nov TrickBot Trojan Getting Ready to Steal OpenSSH and OpenVPN Keys The Trickbot banking trojan keeps evolving according to researchers who spotted this week an updated password grabber module that could be used to steal OpenSSH private keys and OpenVPN passwords and configuration files. […]
22 Nov The Week in Ransomware – November 22nd 2019 – Leaky Files This week the biggest news was Maze Ransomware escalating the ransomware threat releasing a victim’s stolen data because they did not pay the ransom. […]