Tag: spoofing

March 29, 2021

Email spoofing is a growing problem for an organization’s security. Spoofing occurs when a hacker sends an email that appears to have been sent from a trusted source/domain. Email spoofing is not a new concept. Defined as “the forgery of […]

January 29, 2021

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released information on scammers impersonating the agency, warning the public that the criminals operate a spoofed website to trick consumers into disclosing financial information, with a tantalizing promise of instant cash. The FTC, […]

December 29, 2020

Spoofing is a cyberattack that occurs when a scammer is disguised as a trusted source to gain access to important data or information. Spoofing can happen through websites, emails, phone calls, texts, IP addresses and servers. Usually, the main goal […]

October 28, 2020

It can be a very convincing trick… “You can check the number in your display online sir. You’ll see I’m really calling from your bank.” That is, of course, if you are unaware that phone numbers can be spoofed. Then […]

October 24, 2016

InTheCyber – Intelligence & Defense Advisors (www.inthecyber.com), a leader in offensive & Defensive Cyber Security, has discovered in its R&D Labs a new easy and dangerous vulnerability affecting messaging systems. Voicemail caller-id spoofing it’s a quite old flaw. When the mobile […]

June 21, 2016

More than half of Alexa top 500 domains allow email spoofing because their owners have failed to properly configure email servers, according to web security firm Detectify. Email spoofing has often been used in spam, phishing and fraud campaigns, which […]

May 26, 2016

Enterprise employees use mobile apps every day to get their jobs done, but when malicious actors start impersonating those apps, it spells trouble for IT departments. David Richardson, director of product at Lookout, and his team recently researched five families […]

September 9, 2015

IDN homograph attacks belong to the #phishing strategies. Usually the bait emails include a spoofed (homograph) internationalized domain name (IDN). Creating such IDNs is based upon the identical appearance of different logical #characters. Also known as script #spoofing, the hacking […]