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Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like.shop,top and.xyz

Krebs on Security

Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — such as.shop ,top ,xyz — that attract scammers with rock-bottom prices and no meaningful registration requirements, new research finds.

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Booking.com Phishers May Leave You With Reservations

Krebs on Security

This story examines a recent spear-phishing campaign that ensued when a California hotel had its booking.com credentials stolen. KrebsOnSecurity last week heard from a reader whose close friend received a targeted phishing message within the Booking mobile app just minutes after making a reservation at a California.

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ClickFix: How to Infect Your PC in Three Easy Steps

Krebs on Security

In November 2024, KrebsOnSecurity reported that hundreds of hotels that use booking.com had been subject to targeted phishing attacks. From there, they sent out phishing messages asking for financial information from people who’d just booked travel through the company’s app. Source: Sekoia.

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Fake Booking.com phish uses fake CAPTCHAs to trick hotel staff into downloading malware

Malwarebytes

A new phishing campaign that uses the fake CAPTCHA websites we reported about recently is targeting hotel staff in a likely attempt to access customer data, according to research from ThreatDown. Here’s how it works: Cybercriminals send a fake Booking.com email to a hotels email address, asking them to confirm a booking.

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Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US

Krebs on Security

and Pakistan whose employees are accused of using online ads to scam westerners seeking help with trademarks, book writing, mobile app development and logo designs, a new investigation reveals. com — alleging they scammed her out of $100,000 after she hired them to help write her book. ” Launched in 2017, eWorldTrade[.]com

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News alert: Arsen launches AI-powered vishing simulation to help combat voice phishing at scale

The Last Watchdog

3, 2025, CyberNewswire– Arsen , the cybersecurity startup known for defending organizations against social engineering threats, has announced the release of its new Vishing Simulation module, a cutting-edge tool designed to train employees against one of the fastest-growing attack vectors: voice phishing (vishing). Paris, Jun.

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News Alert: SquareX, Fortune 500 CISOs to debut bowser security guide at Black Hat USA 2025

The Last Watchdog

To address this gap, The Browser Security Field Manual systematically guides practitioners through the techniques attackers are using to target employees in the browser across five major threat vectors – Phishing, Malicious Browser Extensions, Browser-based Data Loss, Identity Attacks and Browser-Native Ransomware.