Microsoft Reveals Fiendish Phishing Tactics

Phishing, namely the fraudulent attempt to gain an individual's personal information or credit card information via the use of emails and fake websites, continues to be a favored tactic employed by hackers to part users with money and information that can be used for identity theft. In a recent blog post has revealed three of the more cunning phishing operations they discovered for the year of 2019. Over the years protections against phishing have increased and become incredibly effective, preventing billions of malicious phishing emails from reaching end-users. This has in a sense created an arms war between cybercriminals and those looking to secure machines and networks. Researchers at Windows’ Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection noticed an escalation in the tactics used as well as techniques involving the abuse of legitimate cloud services like those offered by Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and others. The fir...

Your Apple iPhone Is Severely Damaged by (6) Viruses! POP-UP Scam (Mac)

This scam website is designed to trick its visitors into downloading and installing various questionable applications like fake VPN (Virtual Private Network) clients, and apps of other type. This page claims that device (iPhone) is infected with viruses and encourages visitors to remove them with one or another application. At the time of the research it offered to download some app called "Free App". We advise against downloading and installing software that is advertised on pages like this one or other deceptive, unofficial sites. This deceptive page is disguised as one of the Apple websites. Once visited, it says that Apple iPhone is severely damaged by 6 viruses. According to this page, user's browser is damaged by some trojan-type viruses that infected it through some recently visited corrupted pages. It is stated that these viruses might cause damage to sensitive data, Fa...