Black Friday shopping? “A little delay goes a long way!”
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Category Archives: Typosquatting
Dell forgot to renew the domain it uses for PC backups
A squatter bought it and owned it for a month Continue reading Dell forgot to renew the domain it uses for PC backups
Equifax has been sending customers to a fake phishing site for weeks
A series of blunders to add to the Equifax breach Continue reading Equifax has been sending customers to a fake phishing site for weeks
iCloud Phishing Campaign Zycode Back From the Dead
A phishing campaign aimed at Apple users in China that relies heavily on typosquatting has resurfaced.
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Threatpost News Wrap, June 24, 2016
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the news of the week, including a Bitcoin phishing campaign, the Kaspersky Lab ransomware report, misconfigured email servers, and a decline in Angler exploit kit traffic. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, June 24, 2016
Explained: typosquatting
Typosquatting is a term you may have seen when reading about internet scams. In essence it relies on users making typing errors (typos) when entering a site or domain name.Categories: Cybercrime
Social engineeringTags: fakePieter Arntzthe more you kno… Continue reading Explained: typosquatting
Bitcoin Phishing Campaign Uncovered
For the last month attackers have been using a combination of phishing and typosquatting in order to carry out a Bitcoin phishing campaign. Continue reading Bitcoin Phishing Campaign Uncovered
Russian snoops ‘stole Democrats’ dossier on Donald Trump’
Beyond the opposition data about Trump, intruders could read all email and chat traffic. Continue reading Russian snoops ‘stole Democrats’ dossier on Donald Trump’
How programmers can be tricked into running bad code
Are programming language package managers vulnerable to typosquatting attacks? And can these attacks result in software developers running potentially malicious code? The answer to both these questions is yes. This was demonstrated by University of Hamburg student Nikolai Philipp Tschacher who, for his bachelor thesis, performed research that involved creating packages with names very similar to those of 214 popular packages, and uploading them to PyPi, npmjs.com, and rubygems.org, package repositories of the programming languages … More → Continue reading How programmers can be tricked into running bad code
How a college student tricked 17k coders into running his sketchy script
Infecting military and government software engineers is easier than you may think. Continue reading How a college student tricked 17k coders into running his sketchy script