Security Experts Advise on Fighting Cybercrime Amid Reports on Syrian Email Scam Attacks
Attention: Cointelegraph stongly advises NOT to fulfill any email demands coming from scammers calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a division of ISIS. The Radicati Group research showed that about 84% of all email traffic in 2013 was spam. A report from Online Headquarters of Kaspersky Lab security experts securelist.com shows that in Q2 2015, the percentage of spam in email traffic was 53.4%. According to cnet.com, about 30% of Americans knowingly open spam, to which they say: "I know I shouldn't, but I will." It's time to say “No”. The latest report on major email scams....
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Bitfinex has alerted of phishing emails being circulated from an address that is made to appear to be one of its email addresses. The distressed company notes in a blog post on its website that the email is not from any @bitfinex.com address but from @ibitfinex.com, stressing the additional i. Bitfinex states: We like to stress this is not a message sent out by Bitfinex and we advise anyone that has received this email or any similar email to delete it immediately. Do not open the attachments and if you have opened the attachments do a full virus scan of your computer. It added that any....
After a major leak of email and personal information earlier this year, Ledger customers are experiencing a surge in phishing attempts. Phishing attempts and scams against Ledger wallet owners are on the increase with one such scam netting more than 1,150,000 XRP from its victims. The scam used a phishing email that directed users to a fake version of the Ledger website that substituted a homoglyph in the URL — in this case a letter that looked like the letter ‘e’ but wasn’t. On the fake site, victims were fooled into downloading malware posing as a security update which drained the....
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