Duo Security has analyzed the security state of 4.6 million endpoint devices including 3.5 million mobile phones. The devices have been taken from various industries and world regions which makes the analysis quite comprehensive and indicative. The study was based…
Netcraft researchers report that the number of phishing sites using HTTPS has increased since January when a new feature was introduced in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers. Thanks to this feature, the two browsers display warnings when an HTTP…
Signaling System No. 7 known as SS7 has been exploited by hackers in attacks designed to steal money from victims’ online bank accounts. SS7 is a set of telephony signaling protocols developed in 1975, which is used to set up…
A new report by DomainTools reveals the names of the retail companies that are the most frequent victims of phishing. These brands are abused by scammers who create look-alike domains to harvest users’ details. According to the researchers, brands like…
Another report today is indicating the steady growth of ransomware attacks, as well as the increasing danger of cyberespionage. According to Verizon, organizations in manufacturing, the public sector and education are frequent targets of cyberespionage. At least 90% of 289…
This article aims to provide inside on phishing web pages that aim for your information and display how to remove such fake sites from your computer plus protect it in the future. There have so far been millions if not…
NTT Security has just released its 2017 Global Threat Intelligence Report which focuses on global threat trends based on log, event, attack, incident and vulnerability data. The report concentrates on the latest ransomware cases, phishing and DDoS attacks which shape…
According to the Interpol, thousands of compromised systems have been uncovered in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The systems included Command and Control servers that were infected with malware. An Interpol-led operation targeting cybercrime across the ASEAN region has…
This article aims to show various methods on how to block referral traffic from 1-free-share-buttons(.)com which redirects to Sharebutton(.)net spam domain. New referral traffic associated with the domain 1-free-share-buttons(.)com has been reported to devaluate the statistics of websites via multiple…
Phishing attempts are constantly being improved and made more sophisticated and personalized. Currently, carefully crafted spear phishing emails are being spread posing as airlines and financial departments. The attempts go so far that they imitate internal corporate travel and expenses…
Researchers have uncovered yet another phishing scam which involves World of Warcraft. Being one of the most popular games in the world it should come to no one’s surprise that scammers have decided to exploit its fans. The phishing campaign…
Gmail phishing attempts have been registered. Security researchers at Wordfence have detected a highly effective and massively spread phishing technique stealing login credentials for Gmail and other services. Apparently, during the last couple of weeks, tech-savvy users compromised by the…
Amazon has once again been targeted by scammers in a smart phishing scam. Crooks are targeting Amazon buyers and are either setting up independent seller accounts or hijacking reputable existing ones. Once this is done, scammers offer expensive items at…
Phishing continued to be one of the major online threats throughout 2016. Webroot statistics show that 84% of phishing sites were online for less than 24 hours, which makes their average life cycle less than 15 hours. These numbers show…
You should know by now that the best method to protect your computer from ransomware and malware in general, is to prevent it from entering it on the first place. The second best thing is to backup your files so…
