Tag Archives: identity fraud

How to know if you have been hacked and what to do about it

Everyone is vulnerable at the threat of cyber criminals or hackers who gain access to your information, but the threats are not the same for everyone. UNITED KINGDOM WIRING This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. The average person will likely face fewer sophisticated threats than, for example, a high-ranking …

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Iranian spies accidentally filmed videos of themselves hacking

The most telling element of the video, says Wikoff, is the speed the hacker demonstrates in filtering account information in real time. Google account data is stolen in about four minutes. The Yahoo account takes less than three minutes. In both cases, of course, a live account populated with tens …

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Don’t open the ‘Winky Face’ email

A successful spam campaign is infecting computers with ransomware and other malware like cryptocurrency miners and botnet software that can send spam messages from your accounts without you noticing. Phishing attempts are usually easy to catch, but it tricked enough users to open spam messages and download malicious Zip files …

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