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Credit to Author: Quick Heal| Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:16:57 +0000

Social media scams are like those little troublemakers lurking in the corners of our online lives. We’re all…

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Quick Byte: Top Cyber News of the Week (14th to 20th April, 2024)

April 21, 2024 0 Comments #cyberrisks, #quickheal #cybersecurity #cyberawareness, Cyber safety, news, phishing, Security, Uncategorized

Credit to Author: Saurabh Vadghule| Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 05:30:58 +0000

India ranks 10th in cybercrime as per the recent “World Cybercrime Index” In the recently released “World Cybercrime…

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Law enforcement reels in phishing-as-a-service whopper

April 18, 2024 0 Comments Cybercrime, phishing

A major international law enforcement effort has disrupted the notorious LabHost phishing-as-a-service platform.

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Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers

April 15, 2024 0 Comments domaintools.com, mastodon, matthew garrett, other, phishing, sean mcnee, twitter.com, x.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:28:17 +0000

On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to redirect to “x.com” instead. But over the past 48 hours, dozens of new domain names have been registered that demonstrate how this change could be used to craft convincing phishing links — such as fedetwitter[.]com, which is currently rendered as fedex.com in tweets.

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Thread Hijacking: Phishes That Prey on Your Curiosity

April 15, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, adam kidan, brett sholtis, empire workforce solutions, lancasteronline.com, Latest Warnings, multi-persona phishing, Ne'er-Do-Well News, phishing, proofpoint, ryan kalember, thread hijacking, tom murse, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:56:13 +0000

Thread hijacking attacks. They happen when someone you know has their email account compromised, and you are suddenly dropped into an existing conversation between the sender and someone else. These missives draw on the recipient’s natural curiosity about being copied on a private discussion, which is modified to include a malicious link or attachment. Here’s the story of a recent thread hijacking attack in which a journalist was copied on a phishing email from the unwilling subject of a recent scoop.

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