Cybercriminals News

Cybercriminals have devised various fraudulent methods that we cannot even imagine. And now, we will caution you against one such cyber fraud.

The police said they got two more complaints about the same phone number, showing that there's a group working together.

The report also revealed that cyberattacks via browsers and social engineering are the most prevalent methods of web infection.

With the Covid-19 outbreak still present, many individuals are hesitant to shop in public settings such as malls. The problem is that fraudsters have realised that relatively few individuals care to verify the website from which they are purchasing or paying money. Many consumers are frequently duped by offers from bogus websites and wind up paying substantial quantities of money to hackers.

Both India and the United States have joined forces to monitor the Internet and ensure that innocent people are not harmed by cybercrime. Awareness drive on cybercrime launched by Goa police. Children, young adults, and teachers have been targeted by the Cyber Crime Cell. Zantye College, Nirmala Institute, and Royal School were among the colleges and schools visited by a team.

Deductibility is a piece of a bigger quandary stemming from the rise in ransomware attacks, in which cybercriminals scramble computer data and demand payment for unlocking the files. The government doesn't want payments that fund criminal gangs and could encourage more attacks. A ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline last month led to gas shortages in parts of the United States.

The cyber intelligence company has found out that almost 1,000 fake Facebook accounts are distributing links to an allegedly updated version of Facebook Messenger. And Messenger users who followed the link would then be redirected to a fake Facebook Messenger website with a login form, through which cybercriminals harvested users` credentials. Scammers used official Facebook logos and shortened link names that resembled the real ones.

The 34 companies include Cisco, HP, Nokia, Oracle, VMware, Dell, CA Technologies, Symantec, Bitdefender, F-Secure, RSA and Trend Micro, among others.

Cybercrime losses are greater in richer countries; however, the countries with the greatest losses are mid-tier nations.

Through their lawyers, several defendants have suggested their arrests were linked to the election turmoil.   

According to the researchers, the "Adylkuzz" attack is still growing.

As the world struggles to identify the cybercriminals behind the global ransowmware attack that hit 150 countries over the weekend, Neel Mehta, an Indian-origin security researcher working with Google, has claimed on Twitter that the hackers may have links to North Korea.

Internet users lost about USD 476 or Rs 32,400 on an average to cyber attacks, a study by security software firm Kaspersky Lab said on Friday.

 Cybercriminals are using fake LinkedIn profiles to map out the networks of business professionals to scrape contact information and later use these to send spear-phishing emails, security solutions firm Symantec today said.

Google said these "needle-in-a-haystack" attacks are very challenging and represent an ongoing threat to Internet users.

A newly discovered family of malware has the capacity to infect iPhones via Apple computers, posing a security threat to devices that have been largely resistant to cybercriminals, researchers said.