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One challenge after another for the user, along with phishing, now also need to avoid vishing

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One challenge after another for the user, along with phishing, now also need to avoid vishing  ‘Voice Plus Phishing’ is a phishing attack based on a voice or VoIP. In which cybercriminals use social engineering to call from telephone, mobile, Viber, Messenger, WhatsApp, or any unknown number and seduce or intimidate the user. Sensitive personal and financial details of the computer and mobile users are requested under the pretext of providing false information about the problem in the user's bank account, credit card or PIN number, etc. From receiving emails and passwords, PIN codes, bank account numbers, etc., to attempts to get money deposited into your account from a bank, this is what happens.

Thousands of users' passwords stolen through phishing in Google search

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Thousands of users' passwords stolen through phishing in Google search Hackers involved in a phishing campaign targeting the construction and energy sectors have made public all the stolen credentials. The hackers have made all those credentials visible from a simple Google search. Checkpoint Research released a blog post on Thursday. In which the campaign is explained. In which all the stolen credentials and information was dumped in a compromised WordPress domain. The phishing attack was carried out using various fake email templates. In the subject line, the names and titles of the employees of the target company as well as Xerox and Xerox scan notifications were mimicked. The phishing messages were generated from a Linux server and hosted on Microsoft Azure and sent from PHP Mailer and One and One Email servers. Even then, spam was sent from email accounts used by hackers to pretend to be legitimate sources. The attackers of the phishing scam also put some JavaScript code in an