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Humans are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter

Troy Hunt

If I'm completely honest, I had no idea what the correct answer would be because frankly, I'm bad at reading URLs. Everything becomes clear(er) if I manually change the font in the browser dev tools to a serif version: The victim I was referring to in the opening of this blog post? That’s how [link] became [link]. — Bartek ?

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How Phishers Are Slinking Their Links Into LinkedIn

Krebs on Security

Urlscan.io , a free service that provides detailed reports on any scanned URLs, also offers a historical look at suspicious links submitted by other users. Way back in 2016, security firm Fortinet blogged about LinkedIn’s redirect being used to promote phishing sites and online pharmacies.

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GUEST ESSAY: A full checklist on how to spot pharming attacks — and avoid becoming a victim

The Last Watchdog

In this way, even if the victim types the correct address on the address bar, they would be redirected to the corrupted URL, which is controlled by the cyberattackers. Here are a few factors you can look for to verify whether a website is fake or real: •Check the website’s URL. Check website URLs. is copied as somethinggov.us.

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You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results

Krebs on Security

In a blog post on Wednesday , Google’s Michelle Chang wrote that the company’s expanded policy now allows for the removal of additional information that may pose a risk for identity theft, such as confidential log-in credentials, email addresses and phone numbers when it appears in Search results.

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AdSense fraud campaign relies on 10,890 sites that were infected since September 2022

Security Affairs

The researchers pointed out that the activity has surged with over 70 new malicious domains masquerading as URL shorteners. “All of the malicious URLs pretend to look like they belong to some URL shortening service. Some of them even mimic names of reputable URL shorteners like Bitly (e.g URLs like t[.]co/Xa4ZRqsp8C

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GUEST ESSAY: How to mitigate the latest, greatest phishing variant — spoofed QR codes

The Last Watchdog

As a few examples: •Secure email gateways pick up the first URL a QR code sends them to, but not the malicious redirect. Read QR codes to determine if text is hidden in an image that isn’t in text form, or extract and follow the URL to determine if it is malicious. In some cases, these attacks are also hard to detect.

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Symantec, GTSC Warn of Active Microsoft Exploits

eSecurity Planet

Vietnamese security firm GTSC published a blog post this week warning of a new zero-day remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Microsoft Exchange Server, which it said has been actively exploited at least since early August. Powershell.* ” and click Edit under Conditions Change the condition input from {URL} to {REQUEST_URI}.