Chardnadze.space is a fake sports news website that pushes a social engineering scam to trick users into agreeing to see ads on their desktop. The site will display a notification saying “Chardnadze.space wants to show notifications”, and clicking “Allow” would trigger intrusive ads that may be dangerous to interact with.
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Eyesignate.space is a very typical scam website that uses a social-engineering scam to trick users into agreeing to ads on the desktop. When you get redirected to Eyesignate.space, a browser notification saying “Eyesignate.space wants to show notifications” will appear. Pressing “Allow” would permit the site to spam you with ads, some of which may be dangerous to interact with.
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Abundled.club is a fake video game news website that misuses a legitimate browser feature that allows sites to show notifications. Allowing Abundled.club to show you notifications means you would be spammed with ads on your desktop. Some of those ads may expose you to potentially dangerous content, such as malware or scams.
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Recordered.space is one of those scam websites that try to trick users into agreeing to see ads on the desktop. When you get redirected to the site, you’ll see a browser notification saying “Recordered.space wants to show notifications”. If you allow these notifications, you will be spammed with ads.
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Kaseya, a Florida-based software company that provides tools for businesses to manage their networks, was revealed to be a victim of a large-scale ransomware attack that resulted in up to 1500 affected small and medium-sized companies. Perpetrators are demanding a record $70 million ransom for a universal decryptor that would supposedly help all victims restore their normal operations.
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Manhattanstream1.xyz is a scam website that tries to trick users into allowing ads on their desktops. It’s a very typical social engineering scam that misuses a legitimate browser feature that allows sites to show users notifications on their desktops. Instead of useful content, Manhattanstream1.xyz and similar sites show potentially dangerous ads.
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In June’s edition of cybersecurity news headlines, we discuss two data leaks, a ransomware attack, and an update on the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. Data of 3.3 million Volkswagen/Audi customers and 700 million LinkedIn users exposed in separate data leaks, meat provider JBS suffers a ransomware attack, and part of the ransomware paid by Colonial Pipeline retrieved by authorities. These are…
Personal information of around 700 million LinkedIn users has been found being sold on the dark web. The information includes full names, email addresses, phone numbers, gender, physical addresses, and other data. The leak comes mere months after the information of 500 million LinkedIn users was sold on a hacker forum.
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