The entire computer system of Jackson County, Georgia was hit by a massive Ryuk ransomware attack on March 01. Authorities confirmed that the attack has affected all the departments. This ransomware leads to a complete shut down unless the files are recovered using the decryption key. Emails as well as emergency services were affected by […]
Beware of email phishing attacks from hackers while filing your Income Tax Returns. In email phishing attacks, hackers smartly replace some characters of email address with other look-alike characters. Observe the below given E-mail addresses: DONOTREPLY@incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in DONOTREPLY@incometaxindiafilling.gov.in First one is correct E-mail ID from the IT Dept. but if you observe properly the second one […]
All the banks are regularly advising their customers daily for being aware of the increasing phishing frauds by cyber criminals. The fraudsters send emails to the customers which look very similar to that from a bank. The mail would ask you to re-submit account details or credit card information. Hence, to remain safe from this fraud, […]
One of the most dangerous and highly successful type of cyber attacks is spear phishing attacks. This is a highly sophisticated well engineered attack to penetrate into the defense of a targeted victim and has high likelihood of success. The attackers knows enough about the victim to communicate with the victim as an alias and […]
Multiple rogue web applications can be used to attack vulnerable browser extension and exploiting private data becomes easier for adversaries post the access is granted. This is alarming mainly because a normal person browsing the internet is caught unaware of something like this even exists. Various browsers – Chrome, Firefox, Opera extension have been tested […]
A Chinese hackers team stole 18.3 million dollars (Rs. 130 Crore) from the Indian arm of Italian company Tecnimont SpA by taking local managers into confidence that the money was required for an acquisition, one of the biggest cyber heists in the country, the Economic Times reported. The hackers sent emails to the head of Tecnimont Pvt Ltd, […]
There has been a far greater responsibility on the Chief Information Officers(CIOs) to understand the challenges, solutions and trade-offs in terms of the organizations they are a part of. It is equally crucial that CIO’s understand the plans and programs companies undertake to address the issues so that a better representation of the entire breadth […]
This is big, the Apple-ID which managed to stay away from compromises is under attack. A notorious phishing campaign is underway that pretends to be a purchase confirmation from the Apple App store. This has come to light recently and seems to be a classic phishing campaign and interestingly it has gone widespread quickly since […]
Can there be someone else in your shopping cart? Well, the scenario does sound scary but it might very well be true. Hackers constantly come up with crafty ways to get into user accounts to siphon details and use them in various illegal activities. The payment card details are of particular interest to hackers and […]
What is DMARC? DMARC is a security standard which allows a domain to declare a policy of how it wants email processors to examine and treat emails claiming to be from that declaring domain. The core policies are “none” (do nothing special, and optionally report), or “quarantine” or “reject” messages which fail various other security […]
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