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Scamming Booking.com clients through hotel accounts

22

Dec

2023

This season, a new attack scheme is proving very popular with cybercriminals: scamming Booking.com clients through the service’s internal messaging system. To do this, they use compromised hotel accounts on admin.booking.com. Over the past few months, various companies have released studies on incidents of this nature. Here’s a detailed breakdown of how this attack works, […]

Category Cyber-crime Phishing Written by Kaspersky 0 Comments

How to properly store your user passwords

26

Sep

2023

By now, as the end of the first quarter of the 21st century draws near, everyone is surely aware that user passwords are digital gold, and that protecting them is a key aspect of ensuring data security and privacy. Yet despite this, not all companies store passwords properly still. In this post we look at […]

Category Access control Security Written by Kaspersky 0 Comments

Hackers can take over accounts you haven’t even created yet

07

Jun

2022

Account hijacking has sadly become a regular, everyday occurrence. But when it comes to hijacking accounts before they are even created? That’s something you’d never think possible—but it is. Two security researchers, Avinash Sudhodanan and Andrew Paverd, call this new class of attack a “pre-hijacking attack.” Unfortunately, many websites and online services, including high-traffic ones, […]

Category Cyber-crime Identity theft Written by Blog 0 Comments

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