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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.
In 2004 the first rock phishing attacks contained the folder path “/rock”, which led to the name of the attack, and group. Attackers employed wild card DNS (domain name server) entries to create addresses that included the target's actual address as a sub-domain.
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 ...
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 domain which not suspended by a registrar was re-used in later attacks. The group created a phishing "kit", which came pre-prepared for use against many victim institutions. [5] [8] Avalanche attracted significant attention from security organisations; as a result, the uptime of the domain names it used was half that of other phishing domains ...
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 ...
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.
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.