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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #6735 on: June 18, 2022, 10:34:39 AM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #6736 on: June 19, 2022, 12:15:12 AM »
Don’t be fooled by lottery scams
https://blog.avast.com/lottery-scams
Don’t be fooled by lottery scams

https://youtu.be/Q8BQccCX2ts
These scams can come by email, text, or regular mail –
here’s how to identify them.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #6737 on: June 19, 2022, 10:48:15 PM »
after id download a software and had run it a cmd'd open and ran a command and know im having my avast blocking this file on firewall ALL THE TIME. i dont know what is it neither how to remove it. when i ran the virus scanner it isnt recognized as a virus.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #6738 on: June 23, 2022, 03:26:46 PM »

Vishing scams are on the rise

https://youtu.be/7D-ZKlMJUes
Vishing scams can come in many forms, but they generally involve two vectors
that both aim at getting you to hand over your information.
To find out what Interpol is doing about this problem, look at GRACE MACEJ’s
excellent article at the following link:
https://blog.avast.com/vishing-scams
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #6739 on: June 25, 2022, 01:16:09 AM »

Weekly Security News Roundup w/e 6-24-2022

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #6740 on: July 01, 2022, 02:36:11 PM »

The right way to handle Cookie Banners

https://youtu.be/KMFa_1_4eTU
When you get to a website and are greeted with a Cookie Banner,
here's the right action to take and it is NOT Accept All.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #6741 on: July 02, 2022, 01:14:22 AM »

Weekly Security News Roundup w/e 7-1-2022

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #6742 on: July 04, 2022, 04:33:05 PM »

Avoiding medical scams

https://youtu.be/FkWLsid4F4c
Follow these tips to recognize and avoid both
Durable Medical Equipment (DME) fraud and
Medical identity theft.
Read Grace Macej comprehensive article on this topic.
https://blog.avast.com/medical-scams
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #6743 on: July 09, 2022, 08:29:06 PM »

Weekly Security News Roundup w/e 7-9-2022

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #6744 on: July 10, 2022, 07:38:00 PM »
L.S.

Weak smb1 and how it is being abused.
and there are such NSA exploits, that later come to again bite the community in the form of malcode modified by cybercriminals into rats and ransomware:
See: https://threatpost.com/eternalblue-exploit-spreading-gh0st-rat-nitol/126052/

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #6745 on: July 10, 2022, 08:48:37 PM »
L.S.

Weak smb1 and how it is being abused.
and there are such NSA exploits, that later come to again bite the community in the form of malcode modified by cybercriminals into rats and ransomware:
See: https://threatpost.com/eternalblue-exploit-spreading-gh0st-rat-nitol/126052/

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Why are folks still using SMB1?
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #6746 on: July 13, 2022, 10:51:06 PM »
Most devious and effective recent black hat fraud attack:
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/07/12/from-cookie-theft-to-bec-attackers-use-aitm-phishing-sites-as-entry-point-to-further-financial-fraud/

More than ten thousand organizations fell victim to a phishing-attack where proxyservers are being abused to be able to circumvent 2FA. Such compromised accounts are abused to commit so-called BEC-fraud (BEC = Business Email Compromise).

One could recieve an email to listen in to a voicemail. When one opens the html-file attached one will get redirected to a phishing site. Office users are being attacked in this way. Do not fall for this fraud scheme.

MS has a survey of all domains used  in this fraud. Train your awareness to see if the site is the real McCoy or not. And as allways MS asks you once and you will stay logged in for ever.
Later people are astonished as they can no longer sign on on their MS- or Google account.

Never log-in from an email that you did not initiate yourself.
Microsoft to log you out of such sessions could be a remedy.
And MS should log and check on this abused IP-addresses.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #6747 on: July 15, 2022, 10:32:43 PM »

Weekly Security News Roundup w/e 7-15-2022

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #6748 on: July 18, 2022, 01:49:54 PM »
Large-scale attack found on Word Press CMS with plug-in, Kaswara Modern WPBakery Page Builder add-on, leak description: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-24284

Developers never came up with an update and will not. Around 4 to 8 thousand websites still have this vulnerable add-on installed. Recently an exploit for this hole was run on 1,6 million Word Press websites.
Vulnerability is qualified as high - 10.0, users are being advised to remove the add-on a.s.a.p.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #6749 on: July 23, 2022, 06:13:35 PM »

Weekly Security News Roundup w/e 7-22-2022

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