Reading Time: 3 minutes What Is Phishing? Phishing is a method employed by cybercriminals to access email accounts and systems using deception rather than defeating security protections. In basic phishing attacks, cybercriminals send an email that appears to be legal, tempting the victim to open an attachment or click on a link. This click could result in loading malware…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Phishing trap for One Drive users. How to avoid falling prey? Cybercriminals often use very cunning and inventive tricks to manipulate victim’s mind in phishing attacks. They aimed at eliciting data in such a way the victim doesn’t aware of it. For that purpose, the crooks use social engineering tricks. Recently Comodo specialists discovered a…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Cybercriminals’ big hunt for users’ credentials is gaining momentum rapidly. Their strategy usually stays the same: get attention of the victim, use social engineering techniques to make her run a malicious file, and then steal logins and passwords. But the tactic and the malware hackers use constantly changes. Let’s consider in detail the freshest example…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Cybercriminals always follow the money, and it’s no wonder that Bitcoin’s skyrocketing popularity has made it a massive target for malicious hackers. These criminals are stalking and hunting Bitcoin wallet owners in many devious ways, and one of the most popular tactics is phishing. If a hacker succeeds in gaining access to a target’s Bitcoin…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Comodo has identified a new PayPal phishing email, which is being sent via a server in Turkey. Because PayPal uses email to contact its customers, fraudsters can easily fake the name in the sender’s email address. The email contains only a clickable image of a textual letter, with no text outside the image. The text…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Phishing scams are continuing to plague Twitter users, now through the platform’s Direct Message (DM) feature. As many people know, with the DM feature, users can send direct twitter messages to people, without broadcasting to the entire community. The condition of DM is the DM sender has to be followed by the recipient. Thus, these…

Reading Time: 2 minutes More and more unwitting email and Internet users are getting hooked by phishing scams, and it can be painful indeed. Phishing is a scam used by identity thieves to trick you into providing your sensitive personal or financial information. Thieves use official-looking emails to impersonate trusted entities like banks, credit card companies, and online resources…