All tagged phishing

ILoveYou.txt.vbs

Since today is known for love, let’s look back 21 years to one of the more destructive, costly and famous viruses in history. The “ILoveYou” worm, also known as the “Love Bug” or “Love Letter For You” infected more than ten million Windows computers, beginning on May 5, 2000. This worm began spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs".

BTH News 20December2020

This week on Between The Hacks: The SolarWinds hack explained in plain English, D-Link router vulnerabilities, Google explains their global outage, 28 malware-infected browser extensions and cybercrime book for the security enthusiast on your gift list.

BTH News 04October2020

This week on Between the Hacks, it’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, potentially steep fines for paying a ransom, a New Jersey hospital pays a ransom to prevent sensitive data leakage, a warning about election misinformation, and a tool to test website privacy.

BTH News 08August2020

This week on Between the Hacks, Black Hat keynote addresses election security, more fallout from the Blackbaud breach, the NSA warns of location tracking abuse, 20 GB of Intel data is leaked and watch the DEF CON YouTube channel.

BTH News 18July2020

This week on Between the Hacks, hacked Twitter accounts used in a bitcoin scam, a critical Windows server vulnerability, the UK proposed IoT security standards, the Internet goes down on Friday and a riveting book about how wormable malware created an enormous botnet.

Pharming

Pharming is a type of cyberattack that redirects a website’s traffic to a malicious site that appears to be the real site. Pharming is used frequently in phishing attacks to trick a victim into sharing login credentials, banking information, or other sensitive data with the attacker…

BTH News 10July2020

This week on Between the Hacks, billions of leaked credentials found on the dark web, home routers found to be vulnerable, Instagram star extradited to the U.S. to face charges for BEC attacks, more news about clipboard snooping and The Internet’s Own Boy.