Tag: #DigitalSafety
A few days ago, I received an email that was meant to do one thing, scare me into paying money fast. It claimed that hackers had installed spyware on my devices, recorded compromising footage, and would send those videos to my contacts if I did not pay them in Bitcoin. At first glance, the message […]
In 2025, researchers uncovered a massive pool of exposed login data. Billions of usernames and passwords were found circulating online, collected over time from breaches and malware. It wasn’t one incident. It was years of compromised data coming together in one place. At the same time, phishing has become harder to spot. Emails sound natural. […]
A new WhatsApp-based malware campaign is actively spreading Astaroth, a well-known banking trojan, by abusing user trust and contact lists. The attack uses malicious ZIP files sent directly through WhatsApp chats, allowing the malware to propagate automatically from one victim to another. Once a user opens the ZIP file and runs the embedded content, the […]