Cybercriminals Exploit the Moroccan Tragedy in New Scam Campaign

This blog entry details a scheme that exploits the recent Morocco earthquake by impersonating the domain name of a well-known humanitarian organization for financial fraud...

Exploiting Tragedy: Fake Donation Scams Amid Earthquake in Turkey & Syria

Exploiting Tragedy: Fake Donation Scams Amid Earthquake in Turkey & Syria By Daksh Kapur · February 23, 2023 Figure 1 image from freepik.com & flaticon.com The recent earthquake that shook Syria and Turkey left a devastating trail of destruction. The whole world has shown its support and...

Exploiting Tragedy: Fake Donation Scams Amid Earthquake in Turkey & Syria

Exploiting Tragedy: Fake Donation Scams Amid Earthquake in Turkey & Syria By Daksh Kapur · February 23, 2023 Figure 1 image from freepik.com & flaticon.com The recent earthquake that shook Syria and Turkey left a devastating trail of destruction. The whole world has shown its support and...

earthquake.usgs.gov XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ens/sendsampleemail.php?height=390=470=1"...

FTC Releases Alert on Earthquake Disaster Email Scams

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an alert on email scams that cite the recent earthquakes in Ecuador and Japan. The scam emails may contain links or attachments that direct users to phishing or malware-infected websites. Donation requests from fraudulent charitable organizations...

Researchers, FBI Warn of Nepal Earthquake Scams

The earthquake that hit Nepal late last month has caused untold damage in the region and kicked off a massive relief and aid effort. Attackers are loathe to let a chance like that go by, and they have concocted a number of schemes to deprive victims of their money and hope for relief funds. Aid...

BSD x64 Command Shell, Reverse TCP Inline

Connect back to attacker and spawn a command shell This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework module MetasploitModule CachedSize = 81 include Msf::Payload::Single include Msf::Payload::Bsd include...

Nepal Earthquake Disaster Email Scams

US-CERT warns users of potential email scams citing the earthquake in Nepal. The scam emails may contain links or attachments that may direct users to phishing or malware infected websites. Phishing emails and websites requesting donations for fraudulent charitable organizations commonly appear...

Hackers deface Philippines Department of Environment website

Hackers incensed by the Philippines' controversial cybercrime law have attacked government sites that deliver emergency information during natural disasters. The website of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources DENR was hacked on Saturday, despite calls from Malacañang for a...

Facebook Scam Claims Justin Bieber Stabbed

Teen pop sensation and Rachel Maddow look-alike, Justin Bieber, was not stabbed outside a Los Angeles nightclub, nor was he stabbed outside a nightclub in New York, as two current Facebook spam campaigns allege. Reports claiming that the 17 year-old Canadian megastar had been stabbed by a crazed...

Waves of Tsunami Spam Continue

There has been no respite from the tsunami of scam-emails taking advantage of the natural disaster-nuclear meltdown combo punch that is hitting Japan, according to research from Kaspersky Labs. As pleas for charitable donations for victims of the magnitude 9 earthquake in northern Japan fill the...

Website collecting donations for Japan hacked !

Hackers took down the website of a Tennessee nonprofit that was collecting donations for Japan and replaced the home page with profanity. Japan-America Society of Tennessee executive director Leigh Weiland said hackers broke into the site sometime Wednesday night. The group's web-hosting company...

Experts Warn Of Japan Earthquake, Tsunami Spam

As the Pacific Rim braces for deadly Tsunami’s spawned by today’s magnitude 8.9 earthquake in Japan, the SANS Internet Storm Center says users should be on the lookout for a different kind of Tsunami: scam e-mail and Web pages looking to turn curiosity about the events in Japan into illicit gain...

Check Point response to "KHOBE - 8.0 earthquake for Windows desktop security software"

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