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Password Recovery Scam Targeting Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail Users

23

Jun

2015

Security researcher Slawomir Grzonkowski is warning of a simple – yet clever – spear-phishing scam that is targeting Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail users in an effort to trick them into letting an attacker take over their accounts. The attack method leverages the availability of password recovery features offered by most email providers that allow a […]

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Phishers target Yahoo users

05

Jun

2013

Yahoo Mail introduced two-factor authentication in December 2011. Two-factor authentication can be used to prevent suspicious access to an account (login from a different country, numerous failed login attempts, etc.) and can be used to verify a user’s identity when asking for a password reset. Two-factor authentication has been in the news a fair bit […]

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High profile site scares users

29

Apr

2013

We come across a plenty of malware reports every day. Sometimes we have to deal with some special cases, where a respected vendor is involved. This time it was the Dell driver download site. Download siteThe “Download file” link leads to this unexpected screen (our user complained about a false positive): What a surprise?!Well, being […]

Category General Written by Avast! blog 0 Comments

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