phishing email

The evolution of a 4-year-old-threat Emotet: From an infamous Trojan to a complex threat distributer

Aniruddha Dolas / 7 years
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7 min read

Emotet malware campaign has been existing for a long time. It comes frequently in intervals with different techniques and variants to deliver malware on a victim. Attackers are smart and they use complex techniques to avoid detection. At the start of 2017, we had seen the emotet campaign spreading through email attached PDF and JS […]

3 common types of phishing attacks and tips to avoid them

Sakshat Karkare / 8 years
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4 min read

Phishing is one of the oldest tricks in the book of hackers. But as old as it might be, phishing still remains the most lucrative tool for cybercriminals; as they say, old is gold. This post tells you about the 3 common types of phishing attacks and tips to avoid them. What is Phishing? Phishing […]

Phishing Alert: Beware of Malicious Windows 10 Upgrade Emails

Adithya Omanakuttan / 10 years
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3 min read

As has been reported in the past, malware authors and cyber criminals are very quick to mine trending topics over the Internet in order to trick people and infect their machines. Windows 10 has been making waves over the web off late with every Windows user curious to see what the fuss is all about. […]

LinkedIn Phishing Email Scam Alert!

Sakshat Karkare / 11 years
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3 min read

This is security advisory for our readers who have LinkedIn accounts. We have been made aware of a phishing email scam that is targeting LinkedIn users. Scroll down to read more about this. Users of the popular business-oriented social networking service LinkedIn are apparently receiving emails that seem to be from LinkedIn support. In these […]

India – the 4th Most Targeted Nation by Phishers!

Sakshat Karkare / 12 years
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3 min read

In an earlier post, we had discussed how cyber attacks against India is increasing rampantly. In this post, we give you a brief about how phishing attacks are affecting Indian enterprises and what can be done to contain the problem. In Q3 of 2013 (July – September), about 1,25,212 phishing attacks occurred globally. Out of […]

How to Recognize and Dodge Email Scams?

Sakshat Karkare / 13 years
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4 min read

Internet scams are spreading rampantly across the world. And guess what the most popular carrier of such scams is? No prize for guessing – our beloved internet darling, email. This post gives you a quick read on some of the most common online scams that are spread via emails. 1. The Lost Traveler Scam Name […]