Collaborate Disseminate
Another quite different extortion, blackmail, phishing scam this morning. It is primarily aimed at French speaking users although it was received to an email address used by an English speaker. It comes from what purports or pretends to be a debt reco… Continue reading Fake PayPal Debt recovery email – Extortion, Blackmail, scam and Phishing
This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for August 13, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions and Silent Pocket. This episode was hosted by Tom… Continue reading The Shared Security Weekly Blaze – Facebook and your Financial Transactions, Smart Home Security, Critical HP Printer Vulnerabilities
A bit of a change to the Trickbot delivery system today with this email containing the subject of “PayPal account warning” pretending to come from service@paypal.com but actually coming from “noreply@administrationservpaypal-a.tk̶… Continue reading Fake PayPal account warning delivers Trickbot
These days, it’s not a matter of if your password will be breached but when. Major websites experience massive data breaches at an alarming rate. Have I Been Pwned currently has records from 295 sites comprising 5.3 billion accounts. This include… Continue reading Save the Embarrassment: The Value of Two-Factor Authentication
The bot scraped Venmo’s public API for sex, drugs and alcohol-related words, then tweeted profile photos and first names of the “buyers.” Continue reading Names and photos of Venmo ‘drug buyers’ published on Twitter
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The malware targets trusted Google sites. The metadata fields of images uploaded on trusted Content Delivery Network (CDN) of Google have been embedded with malicious code by hackers to compromise websites. This approach is indeed damaging bec… Continue reading GoogleUserContent CDN Hosting Images Infected with Malware
Venmo transaction data is public by default. But a programmer has taken that data stream and is tweeting the username and photos of users who buy ‘drugs’. Continue reading This Bot Tweets Photos and Names of People Who Bought ‘Drugs’ on Venmo
To its fans, Venmo is a hassle-free P2P app that lets anyone living in the US send money to friends, split a restaurant bill, pay for a ride on Uber, or buy a hotel room. To the security conscious, it’s a privacy nightmare. Continue reading Venmo users: time to hide your drug deals and excessive pizza consumption
The number one brand spoofed by phishers in Q2 2018 in North America was Microsoft, says email security company Vade Security. The company credits the surging of adoption of Microsoft Office 365 for this unfortunate statistic. “It’s clear that Of… Continue reading Microsoft tops list of brands impersonated by phishers
Tron Foundation acquired BitTorrent, PayPal acquired Simility, Panaseer raised $10M Series A, and Agari raised $40M Series E. Tracking Security Innovation Tron Foundation acquired BitTorrent for $140M “BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer networking platform t… Continue reading Tracking Security Innovation – Business Security Weekly #90