New Phishing Scam Lures iPhone Owners with Romantic Chat, Gambling, ‘Free’ VPN

Bitdefender this week has detected a new phishing campaign targeting iPhone owners with a range of scams aiming to defraud unsuspecting victims. First things first. If you receive the email pictured below, steer clear! Don’t open if it’s ma… Continue reading New Phishing Scam Lures iPhone Owners with Romantic Chat, Gambling, ‘Free’ VPN

Fake French Police Sextortion Scam

There has been a noted increase in the number of sextortion scams during 2019. These scam campaigns are commonly distributed through email, but any method of digital communication can be used to deliver the blackmail threat to the victim.
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Phorpiex Botnet Sending Out Millions of Sextortion Emails Using Hacked Computers

A decade-old botnet malware that currently controls over 450,000 computers worldwide has recently shifted its operations from infecting machines with ransomware or crypto miners to abusing them for sending out sextortion emails to millions of innocent … Continue reading Phorpiex Botnet Sending Out Millions of Sextortion Emails Using Hacked Computers

Reset Email Account Passwords After a Website Malware Infection

It’s not uncommon for bad actors to use compromised websites to send large amounts of email spam. This can cause major headaches for website owners — spam can lead to the blacklisting of a web host’s mail server IPs, or the domain na… Continue reading Reset Email Account Passwords After a Website Malware Infection

My Website Was Hacked on Christmas Eve

Christmas is a wonderful time to spend with family and friends. A lot of kids look forward to opening their presents under the Christmas tree, but not all of them have a present to open. This is why our family started a charity project in 2007 called … Continue reading My Website Was Hacked on Christmas Eve

Fake Bomb Threat Emails Demanding Bitcoins Sparked Chaos Across US, Canada

“Pay $20,000 worth of bitcoin, or a bomb will detonate in your building”

A massive number of businesses, schools, government offices and individuals across the US, New Zealand and Canada on Thursday received bomb threats via emails that caused nationw… Continue reading Fake Bomb Threat Emails Demanding Bitcoins Sparked Chaos Across US, Canada

Latest Intelligence for February 2017

Number of new malware variants reaches highest level since October 2016 and Symantec uncovers a wider campaign carried out by Shamoon attackers.Read More Continue reading Latest Intelligence for February 2017

Database of 1.4 Billion Records leaked from World’s Biggest Spam Networks

A database of 1.4 billion email addresses combined with real names, IP addresses, and often physical address has been exposed in what appears to be one the largest data breach of this year.

What’s worrisome? There are high chances that you, or at leas… Continue reading Database of 1.4 Billion Records leaked from World’s Biggest Spam Networks