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Meta tries to stop phishing on Facebook and Instagram

Meta filed a lawsuit in California court to stop phishing attacks that target its users on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and Whatsapp. The company had to take steps to stop phishing Meta’s decision came as there were more than fake 39,000 website trying to…
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Hackers used cookie theft to hijack YouTube Accounts

Attackers used cookie theft in order to hijack the channels of high-profile YouTube creators. It’s no secret that cryptocurrency scams are running rampant. Recently, hacker-for-hire networks have taken to posing as YouTubers and luring creators with bogus…
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Phishing scams: Chinese malware gang targets India

According to Blackberry’s Research and Intelligence Team, there are three phishing scams targeting Indian nationals. They are apparently coming from a Chinese state-sponsored malware gang. Phishing scams from old attackers Blackberry identified an Advanced…
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A phishing campaign uses Google News as a lure

A clever phishing campaign uses Google News to trick users. This impersonates Google’s news website, by using homographic characters. Thus, attackers redirect unsuspecting users to phishing pages. In these attacks, American Standard Code for Information Interchange…
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Facebook warns about domain names used for phishing

Facebook is concerned about domain names used for phishing. So, the company takes action and announced it filed a lawsuit in Arizona, against Namecheap. According to the social media giant, the domain name registrar aims to deceive people. They do this by misleading users…