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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.
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 is a type of social engineering where an attacker sends a fraudulent (e.g., spoofed, fake, or otherwise deceptive) message designed to trick a person into revealing sensitive information to the attacker [2] [3] or to deploy malicious software on the victim's infrastructure such as ransomware. Some spoof messages purport to be from an ...
How to protect yourself against email phishing scams. The best way to protect yourself against email phishing scams is to avoid falling victim to them in the first place.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Domain name spoofing – Phishing attacks that depend on falsifying or misrepresenting an internet domain name; Doppelganger domain – Form of domain name hijack; IDN homograph attack – Visually similar letters in domain names; Misdialed call § Toll-free numbers – Similar attacks on vanity phonewords; Mousetrapping – Digital marketing tool