Beware! Fortnite Cheat Hijacks Gamers' PCs to Intercept HTTPS Traffic

If you are looking for Fortnite v-bucks generator, aimbot or any other game cheats—then beware—you might end up installing malware on your PC! Web-based game-streaming platform Rainway is reporting that tens of thousands of Fortnite players have inadvertently infected their systems with a piece o...

Instagram story spam claims free Apple Watch

I have to admit, I'm not 100 percent sure who Elton Castee is. "Who's that?" you ask? Digging around revealed that he's big on YouTube, has done some films, and raises money for dogs, which is very cool. He's also popular on Instagram, with 400k+ followers. With that in mind, we've seen a few...

Malicious PHP Script Infects 2,400 Websites in the Past Week

A botnet dubbed Brain Food is giving webmasters indigestion with related attacks that push bogus diet pills and IQ-boosting pills via web pages hosted on legitimate sites. So far, spammers have been successful, thanks to an effective Hypertext Preprocessor PHP script also called Brain Food that h...

Wave of Java-Based RATs Target Tax Filers

Spammers are spreading Java-based remote access Trojans, known as jRATs, targeting tax filers with attachments named “IRS Updates.jar” and “ImportantPDF.jar” that, if executed, give attackers access to compromised endpoints. Zscaler, which is tracking the jRATs, believes some of the campaigns cou...

Spammer's Arrest Puts End to Kelihos Botnet

The alleged Russian botmaster behind the Kelihos botnet was arrested while on vacation in Spain, putting an end to a seven-year cybercrime operation that foisted hundreds of millions of spam messages on consumers, as well as a dangerous array of banking malware and ransomware. Pyotr Levashov, als...

Stolen Yahoo Data Sold to Spammers, One Government Client

A database of one billion stolen Yahoo accounts has been sold to at least three different buyers for $300,000 each, and the group selling the data and behind the 2013 intrusion—the largest data breach on record—is a criminal operation, not a state-sponsored attack group as Yahoo claims. Andrew...

Nextcloud: No captcha on newsletter.nextcloudcom leaves vulnerable to email spammers

The lack of a captcah or verificationcodeX it's empty in your phplist configuration allows attackers to use this mail for to send as much spam as they like to victims. I did not reach an email sending limit when I had tested this. PoC images below: Burp suite automated requests:...

Bitcoin Cloud Mining Service Hacked; Database On Sale for Just 1 Bitcoin

Bitcoin Cloud Mining service Cloudminr.io has been hacked and its whole users database is on sale for 1 Bitcoin. The unknown hackers have successfully taken full control of the website's server and defaced the homepage of the website. Users visiting the website are greeted with a defaced homepage...

QMTP Open Relay Test

The QMTP/QMQP server accepts relaying. Copyright C 2015 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can redistribute i...

Spammers Take A Liking to WhatsApp Mobile App

Spammers have settled in on the WhatsApp messaging platform with greater regularity, aided in one locale, by of all things, government regulations. Researchers at AdaptiveMobile yesterday published a report that exposed a number of spam campaigns peddling phony handbags and sunglasses, investment...

Google DoubleClick Open Redirect

Google DoubleClick.netAdvertising System URL Redirection Vulnerabilities Can be Used by Spammers Although Google does not include Open Redirect vulnerabilities in its bug bounty program, its preventive measures against Open Redirect attacks have been quite thorough and effective to date. However,...

Cyber Criminals Use Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Plane Crash News to Bait Users

Any occasion that captures public attention – regardless of how sensitive – comes out to be an opportunity for spammers and hackers to snatch users’ personal information and spread malware, and the tragedy of the crashed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is no exception. According to the U.S...

AOL Breached, Investigating Spam from Spoofed Accounts

AOL reported today that it has been breached and urges users of its web-based email and other online services to change their passwords. AOL’s investigation of a breach of its internal network and systems is under way with the help of federal authorities and a forensics firm, the company said. La...

BEWARE of new Facebook Malware Claims, 'Malaysia Plane MH370 Has Been Spotted'

Hackers are very smart on gaining from every opportunity they get and this time the lost Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 gave them a chance to hijack, not the plane, but you all sitting over their operating your Facebook account and having an eye on every news related to the Mysterious Malaysian...

Google Pulls Adware Extensions from Chrome Store

Two Chrome extensions went from legitimate browsing ad-ons to adware-spewing nuisances in the blink of a legitimate transaction. Google recently took action against the Add to Feedly and Tweet this Page extensions, removing both from the Chrome Store after they were sold to adware brokers and fou...

Vulnerability in Facebook discloses Primary Email Address of any account

When you sign up on Facebook, you have to enter an email address and that email address becomes your primary email address on Facebook. In a recent disclosure by a Security researcher, Stephen Sclafani - The Social Networking site Facebook was vulnerable to disclosure of primary email address of...

Spammers Finding Favor with Google Translate

Some spammers, looking to launder the dirty links they email you, are relying on the positive reputation of Google Translate to redirect victims to rogue websites. Researchers at Barracuda Labs who maintain the company’s spam honeypots have spotted a rash of illicit messages trying to beat...

Spammers Using Fake YouTube Notifications to Peddle Drugs

Spammers are attempting to deceive unsuspecting users into clicking on fake YouTube links that lead to a counterfeit drug website, according to a report yesterday from security firm Webroot. Dancho Danchev writes that pharmaceutical scammers are circulating emails that mimic legitimate Youtube...

Spammers Targeting Pinterest Using Point-And-Click Tools

Spammers have jumped on the latest social media craze: the photo sharing site Pinterest. And they’re being helped out by new, automated spam toolkits designed to exploit the fast growing new social network. As Threatpost has reported, spammers have figured out ways to use Pinterest to drive traff...

Facebook strengthens security with AntiVirus Marketplace

Facebook strengthens security with AntiVirus Marketplace Facebook has launched Anti-Virus Marketplace , a new portal to protect the social network's users.Members are being encouraged to download anti-malware programs which they can use at no cost for six months. Facebook is strengthening its...