Collaborate Disseminate
Scammers on Airbnb are faking technical issues and citing higher fees to get users to a spoofed Tripadvisor website and steal their money. The Airbnb scam Malwarebytes researchers came across the Airbnb scam when trying to book an apartment through the… Continue reading Airbnb scammers pose as hosts, redirect users to fake Tripadvisor site
Silent Librarian cyberattackers are switching up tactics in a phishing scheme bent on stealing student credentials. Continue reading Silent Librarian Retools Phishing Emails to Hook Student Credentials
Silent Librarian cyberattackers are switching up tactics in a phishing scheme bent on stealing student credentials. Continue reading Silent Librarian Retools Phishing Emails to Hook Student Credentials
215 accounts use the same family of special URL shorteners to track the effectiveness of the operation. Continue reading Fishwrap Campaign Sways Social Media Users with Old News
We’ve all seen sketchy looking emails or texts with malicious links to click on. There are still people who fall for these more obvious types of scams, however, phishing scam messages are designed to be deceiving. They use methods that appe… Continue reading Google and Facebook Used in Phishing Campaigns
URL shorteners are often used by malware peddlers and attackers to trick users into following a link they otherwise wouldn’t. But Coinhive’s URL shortener carries an added danger: your CPU power can be surreptitiously hijacked to mine Moner… Continue reading How a URL shortener allows malicious actors to hijack visitors’ CPU power
As we have previously discussed on this blog, surreptitious cryptomining continues to be a problem as new methods emerge to both evade and hasten the ease of mining at the expense of system administrators, website owners, and their visitors.
Another W… Continue reading An Old Trick with a New Twist: Cryptomining Through Disguised URL Shorteners
Last week, we described how an ongoing massive malware campaign began using Baidu search result links to redirect people to various ad and scam pages.
It didn’t last long. Soon after the publication of that article, the bad actors changed the li… Continue reading From Baidu to Google’s Open Redirects
Researchers show that it’s possible to guess links created by URL shorteners, effectively making private files public, and revealing personal information. Continue reading How Short URLs Could Reveal Your Home Address and Get You Hacked