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Don’t Be a Victim of a Phishing Attack

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Criminals and hackers have been extremely sophisticated in creating phony, but authentic looking e-mails that seemed to have originated from legitimate companies. If you receive an e-mail that you believe to be a phishing attempt, do not reply to it since by doing so will just validate the e-mail address is correct. Trust me, you do not want that to happen.

New Trojan Malware Attempts to Hijack Facebook Accounts

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Microsoft recently announced that it had found a malicious browser extension making the rounds on Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that, when downloaded, attempted to hijack users’ Facebook profiles.

Don’t Be a Victim of a Phishing Attack

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New Trojan Malware Attempts to Hijack Facebook Accounts

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Don’t Be a Victim of a Phishing Attack

2013-05-15/0 Comments/in Hack/by admin

For those who are not aware of the term “Phishing” (pronounced “fishing”), it is a type of online identity theft that uses email and fraudulent websites that are designed to steal your personal data or information. You may have seen these type of emails show up in your inbox before.

Instead, your best course of action it to submit phishing e-mails received at work as an attachment (do not forward the e-mail) to your security department or simply delete it. If you receive phishing e-mail while at home, again you should either delete it or forward it to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) at spam@uce.gov so they can add it to their database.

Here are some tips to avoid becoming a victim to a phishing attack:

At home, use trusted security software and set it to update automatically.

New Trojan Malware Attempts to Hijack Facebook Accounts

2013-05-15/0 Comments/in Hack/by SecurityOrb_Staff

An interesting article from the guys at FaceCrooks.com:

The Trojan works by first seeing if the user is logged in to Facebook. If so, it tries to get a configuration file from the website in order to take control of a user’s profile. Some of the malware’s actions have so far included posting “15 YEAR-OLD VICTIM OF BULLYING COMMITS SUICIDE AFTER SHOWING HER BREASTS ON FACEBOOK” in Portuguese with a URL link to a fake video, posting promotions in the comments section of posts and pages, like “Get a brand new Celta paying R$13 per day!!”, and sending out messages via Facebook chat, like “The coolest tune at the moment. It’s really nice!”