Fraudsters are no longer the slick wise guys who can charm their way into anyone’s savings accounts you see on TV. Today’s swindlers are more likely to appear as computer whiz kids who like to masquerade as a Nigerian prince or Bill Gates on the internet. And here’s the amazing part: Some people believe these cons.Continue Reading…
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Huge Botnet Army Hacked Routers Due to Russian Cyber Attack
More than half a million routers and storage devices in dozens of countries have been infected with a piece of highly sophisticated IoT botnet malware, likely designed by Russia-baked state-sponsored group.
Ex CIA Prime Suspect for Vault 7 Leak
A former CIA employee has been named as the prime suspect behind last year’s leak of thousands of top-secret documents on the agency’s hacking practices.Continue Reading…
Facebook Personality Quiz Exposed 3 Million Users
Facebook data on more than 3 million people who took a personality quiz was published on a poorly protected website where it could have been accessed by unauthorized parties, according to New Scientist. In a report exposing the potential leak, New Scientist says that the data contained Facebook users’ answers to a personality trait test. While it didn’t include users’ names, in many cases it contained their age, gender, and relationship status. For 150,000 people, it even contained their status updates.Continue Reading…
Fake HSBC Payment Advice delivers Trickbot
This example is an email containing the subject of “Payment Advice ” pretending to come from HSBC UK but actually coming from a look-a-like or typo-squatted domain “noreply@hsbc-paymentadvice.co.uk” or “noreply@hsbcpaymentadvice.co.uk” with a malicious word doc attachment is today’s latest spoof of a well-known company, bank or public authority delivering Trickbot banking Trojan.