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2. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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   • Don't use internet search engines to find AOL contact info, as they may lead you to malicious websites and support scams. Always go directly to AOL Help Central for legitimate AOL customer support. • Never click suspicious-looking links. Hover over hyperlinks with your cursor to preview the destination URL.

3. DNS hijacking - Wikipedia

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   DNS hijacking, DNS poisoning, or DNS redirection is the practice of subverting the resolution of Domain Name System (DNS) queries. [1] This can be achieved by malware that overrides a computer's TCP/IP configuration to point at a rogue DNS server under the control of an attacker, or through modifying the behaviour of a trusted DNS server so that it does not comply with internet standards.

4. BGP hijacking - Wikipedia

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   Prefixes were from around the globe but mostly US including Google, Microsoft, Akamai, and Cloudflare. [ 30 ] February 2022: Attackers hijacked BGP prefixes that belonged to a South Korean cryptocurrency platform, and then issued a certificate on the domain via ZeroSSL to serve a malicious JavaScript file, stealing $1.9 million worth of ...

5. Pharming - Wikipedia

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   Pharming is a cyberattack intended to redirect a website's traffic to another, fake site by installing a malicious program on the victim's computer in order to gain access to it. [citation needed] Pharming can be conducted either by changing the hosts file on a victim's computer or by exploitation of a vulnerability in DNS server software.

6. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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   Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...

7. Zeus (malware) - Wikipedia

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   Zeus is very difficult to detect even with up-to-date antivirus and other security software as it hides itself using stealth techniques. [5] It is considered that this is the primary reason why the Zeus malware then had become the largest botnet on the Internet: Damballa estimated that the malware infected 3.6 million PCs in the U.S. in 2009. [6]

8. How email spoofing can affect AOL Mail

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   While some legitimate emails come through this way via mailing lists and bulk senders, it also provides the means for spammers to take advantage. By switching AOL Mail's policy to reject these, we significantly impact spammers' attempts to scam our customers.

9. Man put ‘virus’ in older people’s computers to scam them out ...

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   There were about 7,500 victims in the scam, according to officials. The man was arrested in Washington. Man put ‘virus’ in older people’s computers to scam them out of $10 million, feds say