Tag: #CyberAwareness
Conventional Phishing attacks involved tricking potential victims to enter their respective usernames and passwords on fake websites which resembled the genuine websites. Once the login credentials were captured, they were used to steal business as well as personal data. A new trend that has emerged is to trick users into downloading malware that once downloaded […]
A new way to take over Instagram accounts has emerged lately. Hackers used VPN (Virtual Private Network) to communicate with Meta’s AI Bot to avert activation of Instagram’s security systems. Thus, the hacker appeared to be in the same geographical zone as the user of the targeted Instagram account. Hackers took over certain Instagram accounts […]
On Sunday, popular Password Manager Dashlane reported a massive brute-force attack also known as credential stuffing. In the latter, user accounts are fed with as many username and password combinations as needed with the objective that one will be the correct one. The good news is that the company’s internal systems were not affected. However […]