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We see lots of phishing attempts for PayPal login credentials . This one is slightly different than many others and much more involved and complicated. At a quick glance it looks similar to many PayPal and other financial phishing attacks with a fairly bland boiler plate email and a html … Continue reading → Continue reading Another new difficult to protect against PayPal phish
Last month Yours Truly got snookered by a too-good-to-be-true online scam in which some dirtball hijacked an Amazon merchant’s account and used it to pimp steeply discounted electronics that he never intended to sell. Amazon refunded my money, and the legitimate seller never did figure out how his account was hacked. But such attacks are becoming more prevalent of late as crooks increasingly turn to online crimeware services that make it a cakewalk to cash out stolen passwords. Continue reading How Cybercrooks Put the Beatdown on My Beats
We see lots of phishing attempts for Paypal login account credentials. This one is slightly different than many others, mainly in the way the phisher has set up the phishing site. In Internet Explorer you get a “site Hacked” message but in Firefox or Chrome, you get the PayPal Phishing … Continue reading → Continue reading Don’t be blocked!!! – PayPal Phishing
We see lots of phishing attempts for PayPal details. This one is slightly different than many others and much more involved and complicated. This one has a html attachment that contains the phishing acts. There is nothing strange in that. They ask you to give all the usual details. What … Continue reading → Continue reading Paypal Update account information – Phishing with a difference
Checking that a website uses HTTPS is one way of checking if it’s legitimate – but what happens when the scammers are buying SSL certificates that include the name of the company they’re spoofing? Continue reading Let’s Encrypt issues certs to ‘PayPal’ phishing sites: how to protect yourself
I want to put a PayPal donate button on my web page, at the moment it doesn’t have https (I’m working on it…)
Would this be insecure for the people donating or for me?
Continue reading Is a donate button on a http only site insecure?
Late last month, multiple news outlets reported that unspecified law enforcement officials had seized the servers for Leakedsource.com, perhaps the largest online collection of usernames and passwords leaked or stolen in some of the worst data breaches — including billions of credentials for accounts at top sites like LinkedIn, Myspace, and Yahoo.
In a development that may turn out to be deeply ironic, it seems that the real-life identity of Leakedsource’s principal owner may have been exposed by many of the same stolen databases he’s been peddling. Continue reading Who Ran Leakedsource.com?
Late last month, multiple news outlets reported that unspecified law enforcement officials had seized the servers for Leakedsource.com, perhaps the largest online collection of usernames and passwords leaked or stolen in some of the worst data breaches — including billions of credentials for accounts at top sites like LinkedIn, Myspace, and Yahoo.
In a development that may turn out to be deeply ironic, it seems that the real-life identity of Leakedsource’s principal owner may have been exposed by many of the same stolen databases he’s been peddling. Continue reading Who Ran Leakedsource.com?
Researchers have observed a new phishing campaign targeting PayPal users, directing them to fake pages designed to look nearly identical to the legitimate sites. According to ESET researchers, the attack uses “very convincing bait” in an effort to ultimately steal users’ login credentials and other confidential personal information. The attack is carried out after users […]… Read More
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Researchers have observed a new phishing campaign targeting PayPal users, directing them to fake pages designed to look nearly identical to the legitimate sites. According to ESET researchers, the attack uses “very convincing bait” in an effort to ultimately steal users’ login credentials and other confidential personal information. The attack is carried out after users […]… Read More
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