We are in the peak of shipping scam season. Sent via email or text, the simple message that a delivery may not make it by Christmas is all that’s needed to get you invested enough to need to find out more, click links, provide credentials, etc. Any legitimate shipping notification will provide some details you […]
Microsoft Warns of a Massive Covid-19 Excel Phishing Attack via email
The emails claim to be from ‘Johns Hopkins Center’ bearing “WHO COVID-19 SITUATION REPORT”. The attached Excel file, if opened, shows security warning show a graph of supposed coronavirus cases in the US. The file contains a malicious Excel 4.0 macro which downloads & runs NetSupport Manager remote administration tool (RAT). Microsoft has seen several […]
Phishing Attacks and Scams are Surging
Whenever the news is dominated by an event, we see an increase in phishing and scam attempts that use that event to trick people into giving up their logins or download malware. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic is no exception. The number of email and scam web sites using COVID and coronavirus are growing exponentially, just […]