Credential Stuffing: The Financial Sector’s New Headache

Banks and other financial institutions have long been the targets of hackers. Not only do they deal with massive amounts of funds daily, but they are also entrusted with valuable personal information that stealing it is a major goal for many cyber criminals. This treasure trove of personal information includes credit card data, customer information, and the wealth of corporate data that can be sold off or exchanged by those looking to make a quick profit or get an edge over a business competitor. Now they have a new increasingly popular threat to combat. Credential stuffing is an emerging attack method which can be considered a brute force attack. Credential stuffing is the automated injection of breached username and password pairs in order to fraudulently gain access to user accounts. Access to accounts is done by using large numbers of spilled credentials are automatically entered into websites, often by botnet...

Liverealdeals.com POP-UP Redirect

There are hundreds of rogue websites on the web and liverealdeals.com is not an exception (including musicnewsupdate.info, special-promotions.online, notification-time.com and many more). This website, once visited, redirects users to various other untrustworthy websites. As a rule, most users do not visit liverealdeals.com intentionally - its potentially unwanted applications (PUAs, that infiltrate systems without user's knowledge) cause such redirects. Besides, most PUAs also gather data and deliver ads. Once installed, PUAs open a new tab (or window) and redirect users to liverealdeals.com, which then causes additional (typically 2-3) redirects to untrustworthy websites. It is possible that one of the these websites will cause high-risk computer infections. Furthermore, most PUAs are designed to constantly deliver intrusive ads that might lead users to various untrustworthy websites, or run scrips des...