Beware: YouTube Phishing Scam Surfaces

Popular YouTubers are akin to other celebrities in daily life. They have hordes of fans following their exploits with many of those fans wishing some of the stardom would rub off on them. Hackers are now exploiting this desire and leveraging famous YouTubers in a phishing scam. Phishing still remains a popular method of getting users to hand over vital information and often involves hackers trying to lure unsuspecting victims to the site to trick them into disclosing their login, password, credit card number, PIN, or simply to redirect traffic to generate click revenue. This is more often than not by hackers creating authentic looking emails or websites to act as the lure and trick victims, often including some form of social engineering to get the user, now a victim, to enter information without question. In articles published by both Kaspersky Labs and RiskIQ details how the scam operates and the eventual goal....

Heets Ransomware

Heets is is a malicious program that belongs to the Dharma family, these programs are categorized as ransomware. Like most computer infections of this type, it is used by cyber criminals who employ it to encrypt data and to make ransom demands. Once the files are encrypted, they are renamed by adding the ".heets" extension, an email address and a unique victim's ID. For example, if the file was named "1.jpg", then after encryption it will be named "1.jpg.id-1E857D00.[polmacpol@cock.li].heets" and so on. Heets also generates a ransom note that named "FILES ENCRYPTED.txt" and displays a ransom demanding pop-up window as well. "FILES ENCRYPTED.txt" file contains only a couple of sentences stating that all files were encrypted and two emails (polmacpol@cock.li and sevenbbvv@tutanota.com) that should be used to contact cyber criminals who developed Heets ransomware. The pop-up window contains more details. Ther...