Back-to-School Scams Target Students with Library-Themed Emails

College students settling back into school might want to think twice before clicking on an email prompting them to renew their school library account. Researchers warn that students at hundreds of universities worldwide are being targeted with fake emails this week, which tout attachments or link...

This Week in Security News: New Zero-Day Vulnerability Findings and Mobile Phishing Scams

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn how music festival goers need to be on guard for phishing attacks when trying to find a lost iPhone. Also, read how Trend Micro...

Red Lion Controls Crimson

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Red Lion Controls Equipment: Crimson Windows configuration software Vulnerabilities: Use After Free, Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer, Pointer Issues, Use of...

Potential Hurricane Dorian Cyber Scams

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA warns users to remain vigilant for malicious cyber activity targeting Hurricane Dorian disaster victims and potential donors. Fraudulent emails commonly appear after major natural disasters and often contain links or attachments that direc...

Protect Against Romance Scams

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released a short video to help users spot and defend against romance scams. In this type of fraud, cyber criminals gain the confidence of their victims and trick them into sending money. The video includes stories that romance scammers tell to online daters to...

IRS Impersonation Attacks Spread Malware Nationwide

The Internal Revenue Service IRS is warning taxpayers about a snowballing email attack that uses messages pretending to be legitimate IRS communications. The end game for the effort is malware being installed on unsuspecting users’ machines; imposters may gain control of the taxpayer’s computer o...

Hacker Ordered to Pay Back Nearly £1 Million to Phishing Victims

A prolific hacker who carried out phishing scams against hundreds of companies worldwide has been ordered to pay back more than $1.1 million over £922,000 worth of cryptocurrencies to his victims. Grant West, a 27-year-old resident of Kent, England, targeted several well-known companies around th...

Microsoft, PayPal & Facebook most targeted brands in phishing scams: Report

By Sudais When it comes to phishing scams, Microsoft has turned out to be the most preferred target for hackers while PayPal, Facebook, and Netflix are also on the list. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft, PayPal & Facebook most targeted brands in phishing scams:...

TikTok Scammers Cash In On Adult Dating, Impersonation Tricks

As social media platform TikTok becomes the top App Store download in 2019 – and the number three app download on Google Play and on platforms overall – scammers are looking to cash in on the troves of younger users of the popular platform. Tenable researcher Satnam Narang, who has been tracking...

IRS Security Summit Series for Tax Professionals: Create a Data Theft Recovery Plan

The fifth and final step in the Internal Revenue Service IRS Security Summit series for tax professionals is creating a data theft recovery plan. IRS issued a news release highlighting the importance of understanding the risks posed by national and international cybersecurity criminal syndicates,...

FTC Releases Alert on the Capital One Data Breach

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an alert on the Capital One data breach that exposed the personal information of 106 million Capital One credit card customers and applicants. FTC reminds users to check and monitor their credit report to protect against identify theft and to be aware...

How to get your Equifax money and stay safe doing it

UPDATE August 2, 2019: The US Federal Trade Commission has warned consumers that, due to the high number of claims made for a cash payout regarding the Equifax data breach, the actual value that will be paid out might be "far less" than the originally-stated $125. You can read the FTC's full...

Good Twitter Samaritans accidentally prevent shoeshine scam

A few days ago, Indian news portals were buzzing with tales of a well-worn shoeshine scam making its way into social media. It’s a great example of how good-natured gestures can unwittingly aid scammers when we combine high-visibility accounts with potential lack of fact checking. Thankfully, it...

New Facebook ad reporting tool launches in UK

Last year, well-known consumer advice expert Martin Lewis decided to take Facebook to court for defamation. The cause? Multiple bogus adverts placed on the social network featuring his likeness, appearing via the ad network Outbrain. As a trusted face in consumer causes, scammers bolting Lewis'...

Hackers Can Manipulate Media Files You Receive Via WhatsApp and Telegram

If you think that the media files you receive on your end-to-end encrypted secure messaging apps can not be tampered with, you need to think again. Security researchers at Symantec yesterday demonstrated multiple interesting attack scenarios against WhatsApp and Telegram Android apps, which could...

A week in security (June 24 – 30)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we peeled back the mystery on an elusive malware campaign that relied on blank JavaScript injections, detailed for readers our latest telemetry on the tricky GreenFlash Sundown exploit, and looked at one of the top campaigns directing traffic toward scareware pages...

ABB CP635 HMI

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable from adjacent network/low skill level to exploit Vendor: ABB Equipment: CP635 HMI Vulnerability: Use of Hard-coded Credentials 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to prevent legitimate...

Recipe for success: tech support scammers zero in via paid search

Tech support scammers are known for engaging in a game of whack-a-mole with defenders. Case in point, last month there were reports that crooks had invaded Microsoft Azure Cloud Services to host fake warning pages, also known as browser lockers. In this blog, we take a look at one of the top...

Johnson Controls exacqVision Enterprise System Manager

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.7 Vendor: Johnson Controls Equipment: exacqVision Enterprise System Manager ESM Vulnerability: Improper Authorization 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow malicious code execution. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS...

IRS Warns of New Tax Scams

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has issued a reminder urging consumers to look out for two new variations of tax-related phone and email scams. The phone scam involves pre-recorded messages threatening to suspend or cancel a victim’s Social Security number, and the email phishing scam involves a...