Phishing

OpenAI has said that a suspected China-based group called SweetSpecter posed as a user of OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT earlier this year and sent customer support emails to staff.

Lumma Stealer, a recently identified information-stealing malware, is being distributed to users via fake human verification pages. According to researchers at the cybersecurity firm CloudSEK, the malware is targeting Windows devices and is designed to steal sensitive information from the infected device. Concerningly, researchers have discovered m...

Indian cyber-security agencies have detected a phishing fraud that "mimics" the official website of the Ministry of Defence to "harvest" the log-in credentials of officials to "steal" sensitive government documents.

India's telecom watchdog on Tuesday directed service providers to stop all promotional calls from unregistered callers and blacklist them as it looks to tackle a surge in spam and phishing calls that has seen people lose millions of rupees.

"No one can trace this number. It is fake...," a scammer confesses, rattled after his mark turns the tables on him, in a video that has gone viral on X.

CERT-In notes that these phishing attackers are also distributing Trojan malware, disguised as recovery tools.

US cybersecurity agency CISA has issued a warning that hackers are trying to take advantage of Microsoft outage for phishing and other malicious activity.

The fraudulent message urges recipients to respond within 24 hours to avoid the parcel being returned, and includes a web link.

As per blockchain security firm SlowMist, the TON blockchain is facing high risk of phishing attacks. In phishing attacks, the actor entices potential victims into sharing their private information – personal as well as financial – in order to exploit the information and steal funds.

Cyber experts warn about a sophisticated malware mimicking Microsoft and Google Chrome to steal sensitive information.

In March this year, Scam Sniffer stated in its crypto phishing report that about 57,000 victims lost approximately $47 million (roughly Rs. 392 crore) to crypto phishing scams – with most percentage of scams facilitated by scammers working on X.

Apple revealed its efforts to prevent fraudulent transactions via the App Store between 2020 and 2023 on Tuesday. The Cupertino-based tech giant highlighted the rise of digital threats and the measures it has taken to protect users from falling for scams and phishing attacks. The company said it has prevented transaction frauds in the App Store tot...

An Indian-origin man, employed in the Singapore Air Force, was on Wednesday sentenced to 11 months in jail for phishing women's social media login details to get their intimate images.

Google introduced its newest cybersecurity-focused threat detection and analysis product dubbed Google Threat Intelligence on Tuesday. The tech giant is offering the product as a part of the Google Cloud Security portfolio, and said it will assist cybersecurity professionals gain better visibility of global threats. The threat intelligence platform...

India ranked as the third-largest country globally for phishing attacks after the US and UK, with its technology sector facing nearly 33 per cent of all such strikes, marking it as the most targeted industry, according to a report.

OpenAI has said that a suspected China-based group called SweetSpecter posed as a user of OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT earlier this year and sent customer support emails to staff.

Lumma Stealer, a recently identified information-stealing malware, is being distributed to users via fake human verification pages. According to researchers at the cybersecurity firm CloudSEK, the malware is targeting Windows devices and is designed to steal sensitive information from the infected device. Concerningly, researchers have discovered m...

Indian cyber-security agencies have detected a phishing fraud that "mimics" the official website of the Ministry of Defence to "harvest" the log-in credentials of officials to "steal" sensitive government documents.

India's telecom watchdog on Tuesday directed service providers to stop all promotional calls from unregistered callers and blacklist them as it looks to tackle a surge in spam and phishing calls that has seen people lose millions of rupees.

"No one can trace this number. It is fake...," a scammer confesses, rattled after his mark turns the tables on him, in a video that has gone viral on X.

CERT-In notes that these phishing attackers are also distributing Trojan malware, disguised as recovery tools.

US cybersecurity agency CISA has issued a warning that hackers are trying to take advantage of Microsoft outage for phishing and other malicious activity.

The fraudulent message urges recipients to respond within 24 hours to avoid the parcel being returned, and includes a web link.

As per blockchain security firm SlowMist, the TON blockchain is facing high risk of phishing attacks. In phishing attacks, the actor entices potential victims into sharing their private information – personal as well as financial – in order to exploit the information and steal funds.

Cyber experts warn about a sophisticated malware mimicking Microsoft and Google Chrome to steal sensitive information.

In March this year, Scam Sniffer stated in its crypto phishing report that about 57,000 victims lost approximately $47 million (roughly Rs. 392 crore) to crypto phishing scams – with most percentage of scams facilitated by scammers working on X.

Apple revealed its efforts to prevent fraudulent transactions via the App Store between 2020 and 2023 on Tuesday. The Cupertino-based tech giant highlighted the rise of digital threats and the measures it has taken to protect users from falling for scams and phishing attacks. The company said it has prevented transaction frauds in the App Store tot...

An Indian-origin man, employed in the Singapore Air Force, was on Wednesday sentenced to 11 months in jail for phishing women's social media login details to get their intimate images.

Google introduced its newest cybersecurity-focused threat detection and analysis product dubbed Google Threat Intelligence on Tuesday. The tech giant is offering the product as a part of the Google Cloud Security portfolio, and said it will assist cybersecurity professionals gain better visibility of global threats. The threat intelligence platform...

India ranked as the third-largest country globally for phishing attacks after the US and UK, with its technology sector facing nearly 33 per cent of all such strikes, marking it as the most targeted industry, according to a report.