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Pharming – What is it and How Can you Dodge it?

Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 05:30:26 +0000

If someday you intend to go to a mall but end up in a fish market, then that’s a case of bad directional sense. In the digital world, however, we call it pharming! How Does Pharming Work? Phishing is an online fraud where a scammer sends fraudulent emails to the…

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Banking malware, Dridex bounces back through PDF

Credit to Author: Ankita Ashesh| Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 06:55:01 +0000

Dridex is a banking malware which uses macros to spread on windows systems. Spam email attachments are utilized to spread this infection. Banking malware are generally key loggers. They trick users into opening the attachment; it then records the keystrokes on user’s computer and uses them for their own benefit….

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OAuth Phishing On The Rise

Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 22:59:29 +0000

Recently there was a significant volume of new phishing emails aimed at capturing access to Google accounts…specifically your email and contacts. You can read more about it at The Verge, Quartz, and Ars Technica. This phish is a great—evil !?!—example of a sophisticated attempt to gain access to a large number of users accounts. In…

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Google Docs App spam goes phishing

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 19:51:53 +0000

There’s a very clever phishing scam going around at the moment involving Google Docs App. Originally thought to be targeting journalists given the sheer number of them mentioning it on their Twitter feeds, it’s also been slinging its way across unrelated mailboxes – from orgs to schools/campuses.

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