Tax refund scam targets Californians

The State of California Franchise Tax Board FTB recently issued a warning to taxpayers to protect themselves from tax scams. In their warning the FTB states: “Recently, the FTB received reports of a scam targeting taxpayers through text messages that appear to be from FTB. These text messages...

ClickFix Attack: Fake Google Meet Alerts Install Malware on Windows, macOS

Protect yourself from the ClickFix attack! Learn how cybercriminals are using fake Google Meet pages to trick users…...

Researchers Uncover Hijack Loader Malware Using Stolen Code-Signing Certificates

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new malware campaign that delivers Hijack Loader artifacts that are signed with legitimate code-signing certificates. French cybersecurity company HarfangLab, which detected the activity at the start of the month, said the attack chains aim to deploy an...

Fake ChatGPT and AI pages on Facebook are spreading infostealers

By Habiba Rashid Some of the pages have millions of likes on them, suggesting that this is a large-scale scam. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake ChatGPT and AI pages on Facebook are spreading infostealers...

Zeus Alternative Pandemiya Banking Malware For Sale in Underground Forums

A new and relatively rare Zeus Trojan program has found which is totally different from other banking Trojans and has capability to secretly steal data from forms, login credentials and files from the victim as well as can create fake web pages and take screenshots of victim's computer. Researche...

Phishy Direct Messages Link to Fake Twitter Sign-in Page

A wave of spammy direct messages on Twitter contain URLs leading to what appears to be a Twitter login page, but is actually a phishing site trying to pilfer user login credentials. The ploy from the attackers in this campaign is a familiar one: “hey, someone is spreading nasty rumors about you...

IE bookmark 'clever' feature not so clever after all

short: type the name of one of your bookmarksfavorites in the addressfield in IE, and IE will execute the bookmark. bit longer: its trivial to trick a user into accepting a bookmark for a popular site, uh, lets say www.hotmail.com .. or placing it yourself. effect: users wont be able to access...