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Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire.Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks, typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets.
Darcula is a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) Chinese-language platform which has been used against organizations (government, airlines) and services (postal, financial) in over 100 countries. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Darcula offers to cybercriminals more than 20,000 counterfeit domains (to spoof brands) and over 200 templates.
An approach introduced in mid-2006 involves switching to a special DNS service that filters out known phishing domains. [118] To mitigate the problem of phishing sites impersonating a victim site by embedding its images (such as logos), several site owners have altered the images to send a message to the visitor that a site may be fraudulent ...
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.
Scammers launch thousands of phishing scams every day, and they're often successful at stealing personal information from targets, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
A plural of a singular domain name; A different top-level domain (e.g., .com instead of .org) An abuse of the Country Code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) (.cm, .co, or .om instead of .com) Similar abuses: Combosquatting – no misspelling, but appending an arbitrary word that appears legitimate, but that anyone could register.
We can likely all agree that governmental cyber security is an important issue. While the Attorney General has created a task force to deal with election hacking, there have been plenty of digital ...
A doppelganger domain is a domain that is spelled identically to a legitimate fully qualified domain name (FQDN) but missing the dot between host/subdomain and domain, to be used for malicious purposes. Typosquatting's traditional attack vector is through the web to distribute malware or harvest credentials.