PC Security and Other Useful Information

Microsoft Sees 250% Phishing Increase, Malware Decline by 34%

“Phishing attacks have seen an impressive 250% increase between January and December 2018, with attackers moving to multiple points of attacks during the same campaign, switching between URLs, domains, and servers when sending e-mails and hosting phishing forms.”

New Extortion Email Threatens to Send a Hitman Unless You Pay 4K

“Extortion emails are getting wilder and wilder. First we had sextortion scams that threatened to reveal victims doing dirty deeds on video, then bomb threats, which brought the worlwide attention of law enforcement, and now we have threats that a hitman is targeting the recipient unless they pay $4,000 in bitcoin.”

Phishing Attack Pretends to be a Office 365 Non-Delivery Email

“A phishing campaign has been discovered that pretends to be a non-delivery notifications from Office 365 that leads you to a page attempting to steal your login credentails.

This new campaign was discovered by ISC Handler Xavier Mertens and states that “Microsoft found Several Undelivered Messages”. It then prompts you to click on the “Send Again” link in order to try sending the emails again. “

PayPal phishing scam using Conditional CSS tricks and Google Captcha

Thanks to Mark Pahulje, MVP  for pointing this out.

Apple Phishing Email – Deezer Music & Podcast Player by DEEZER, Subscription renewal

“Notice of Apple Phishing Email – “Deezer Music & Podcast Player by DEEZER, Subscription renewal” made it through Outlook filters. The JavaScript malware contained in the PDFs, passed VirusTotal and many anti-virus scans online without detection. “