Phishing

Data breaches can prove expensive to users since hackers are bound to use the information for social engineering (advanced phishing), scamming, ransomware, spamming and marketing, causing users immense amount of distress and financial losses too in many cases. Here's how companies can protect their data from hackers and make it secured against data...

Chrome 91 is getting several updates to enable safe browsing. Enhanced Safe Browsing is available in Chrome security settings and can be toggled on at any time. Google says users who have Enhanced Safe Browsing enabled are “successfully phished 35 percent less than other users.” Google says that Enhanced Safe Browsing on Chrome will now offer a...

Scammers pretend to be legitimate sellers by using a fake website or a fake ad on a genuine retailer site or even by sending text messages and emails to trap unsuspecting customers.

Clubhouse has reportedly become a victim to a massive data scraping as personal information of over 1.3 million users has been scraped from Clubhouse. The data is being sold online on a popular hacking forum. These details, in the hand of bad actors, could lead to targeted phishing, social engineering attacks, or even identity theft.

Former NDTV journalist Nidhi Razdan tweeted today that she had been the target of a "very serious phishing attack" and had learnt that what she believed was an offer to teach at Harvard University was fake. Ms Razdan had quit NDTV last year after a 21-year stint to take up the offer.

Bollywood actor Esha Deol became one of the latest victims of phishing scams prevalent on Instagram. It isn’t something new and exists for some time. Instagram itself also updated its app to help people identify phishing scams.

US web company GoDaddy apologized after an email that promised employees a Christmas bonus in the midst of the economic crisis turned out to be a computer security test.

Google on Tuesday announced Verified Calls, a new feature in the Phone app on Android devices, which will identify calls from genuine business numbers in an attempt to tackle phone fraud. This is a serious problem in India and many parts of the world, and Google's verified calls will show you the identity of the caller, as well as the reason for th...

Do not click on any URL, sent through SMS or WhatsApp, to register for free smartphones under the Punjab Smart Connect Scheme, state's Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla said cautioning people against online frauds.

A 350 percent increase in phishing websites was reported in the first quarter of the year, many targeting hospitals and health care systems and hindering their work responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN counterterrorism chief said Thursday

Nagpur Police is ready to help scammers with grammar lessons. Their hilarious tweet offering grammar lessons has won praise.

Zoom along with the cybersecurity company Check Point has fixed an issue with its Vanity URL that could have potentially allowed hackers to manipulate meeting ID links for phishing purposes.

Hackers based in China attempted over 40,000 cyber attacks on India's Information Technology infrastructure and banking sector in the last five days, a top police official in Maharashtra said on Tuesday.

The government has asked people to guard against a massive phishing attack that could mimic official communication on COVID-19 pandemic to steal personal data and financial information.

Google said state-backed hackers have targeted the campaigns of both President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, although it saw no evidence that the phishing attempts were successful.

Data breaches can prove expensive to users since hackers are bound to use the information for social engineering (advanced phishing), scamming, ransomware, spamming and marketing, causing users immense amount of distress and financial losses too in many cases. Here's how companies can protect their data from hackers and make it secured against data...

Chrome 91 is getting several updates to enable safe browsing. Enhanced Safe Browsing is available in Chrome security settings and can be toggled on at any time. Google says users who have Enhanced Safe Browsing enabled are “successfully phished 35 percent less than other users.” Google says that Enhanced Safe Browsing on Chrome will now offer a...

Scammers pretend to be legitimate sellers by using a fake website or a fake ad on a genuine retailer site or even by sending text messages and emails to trap unsuspecting customers.

Clubhouse has reportedly become a victim to a massive data scraping as personal information of over 1.3 million users has been scraped from Clubhouse. The data is being sold online on a popular hacking forum. These details, in the hand of bad actors, could lead to targeted phishing, social engineering attacks, or even identity theft.

Former NDTV journalist Nidhi Razdan tweeted today that she had been the target of a "very serious phishing attack" and had learnt that what she believed was an offer to teach at Harvard University was fake. Ms Razdan had quit NDTV last year after a 21-year stint to take up the offer.

Bollywood actor Esha Deol became one of the latest victims of phishing scams prevalent on Instagram. It isn’t something new and exists for some time. Instagram itself also updated its app to help people identify phishing scams.

US web company GoDaddy apologized after an email that promised employees a Christmas bonus in the midst of the economic crisis turned out to be a computer security test.

Google on Tuesday announced Verified Calls, a new feature in the Phone app on Android devices, which will identify calls from genuine business numbers in an attempt to tackle phone fraud. This is a serious problem in India and many parts of the world, and Google's verified calls will show you the identity of the caller, as well as the reason for th...

Do not click on any URL, sent through SMS or WhatsApp, to register for free smartphones under the Punjab Smart Connect Scheme, state's Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla said cautioning people against online frauds.

A 350 percent increase in phishing websites was reported in the first quarter of the year, many targeting hospitals and health care systems and hindering their work responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN counterterrorism chief said Thursday

Nagpur Police is ready to help scammers with grammar lessons. Their hilarious tweet offering grammar lessons has won praise.

Zoom along with the cybersecurity company Check Point has fixed an issue with its Vanity URL that could have potentially allowed hackers to manipulate meeting ID links for phishing purposes.

Hackers based in China attempted over 40,000 cyber attacks on India's Information Technology infrastructure and banking sector in the last five days, a top police official in Maharashtra said on Tuesday.

The government has asked people to guard against a massive phishing attack that could mimic official communication on COVID-19 pandemic to steal personal data and financial information.

Google said state-backed hackers have targeted the campaigns of both President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, although it saw no evidence that the phishing attempts were successful.