Potential victims receive fake email messages from Who asking them to click on a link or download a file The Coronavirus scandal, also recognized as COVID-19, has overflown the entire planet very fast and some hackers decided to misuse it for their own goals. Recently, crooks were found impersonating World […]
Spam and phishing
Operation Rebound: fake social media profiles with pictures of young girls used in the attack against Israel Defense Forces members According to the Israeli military, social media profiles with selfies of young girls got used in the Operation Rebound by Hamas.[1] The Twitter post from Israel Defense Forces claims that […]
Hamas hacker group tried to “catfish” Israeli soldiers on social ...
The bureau has received almost 5 million complaints since May 2000 On February 11, the FBI’s IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center)[1] has released a report which compiled data relating to cybercrime in 2019. The Internet Crime Report revealed the numbers behind cybercrime activities, as well as significant losses that were […]
Cybercrime in 2019: FBI reports $3.5 billion in damages
Lock My PC is not available for public due to frequent misuse by tech support scammers Developers of Lock My PC, a legitimate application offered to business and regular customers for free, have announced that they will be providing technical support scam victims with recovery keys when locked out of […]
Lock My PC developers offer free recovery for tech support ...
Charming Kitten hackers sent out fake requests for interviews impersonating New York Times journalists Iranian government-linked hackers attempted to steal email login information by targetting people with fake interview offers from journalists.[1] Iranian activists, other journalists, people from academia, permanently living in other countries got emails from the Charming Kitten […]
Iranian-linked hackers pose as journalists in the email scam campaign

Counterfeit versions Adidas, Nike, Converse and other popular shoe brands advertised on sporting forums Security researchers uncovered a new phishing campaign that leads users to sites that sell counterfeit versions of branded shoes. The goal of the attackers is to offer users cheap (but fake) shoes from brands like Nike […]
Credit card skimmers inserted into hundreds of fake sneaker sites

The newly-formed hacking group TA2101 impersonates governmental entities in a targeted malspam campaign that delivers Maze ransomware, among other malware A massive malspam campaign was spotted by Proofpoint security researchers in Germany, Italy, and the United States.[1] Between October 16 and November 12, organizations from healthcare, manufacturing, business, and IT service […]
Hacking gang targets the US, Italy and Germany with malware-laden ...

The promoted tool can allegedly generate Bitcoin keys to steal funds but installs info-stealing Trojan instead A YouTube channel that goes by the name Crypto World is trying to trick users by offering software allegedly capable of stealing funds from victims’ Bitcoin wallets. In reality, what bad actors attempt to […]
Bitcoin scam on YouTube: users tricked into installing Predator Trojan

With the release of Mozilla Firefox 72 in January 2020, users will stop seeing the “allow to show notifications” requests by default Push notification feature, which served as a great annoyance to many users for the past several years, will be disabled on the Firefox browser from January 2020 by […]