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An increasingly popular technical solution is parental control apps. These enable parents to monitor, filter and restrict children’s online interactions and experiences. (File photo: McKaela Taylor/Unsplash) Children, like adults, are spending more time online. At home and school pre-schoolers now use an array of apps and platforms to learn, play and be entertained. While there are reported benefits, including learning through exploration, many parents are still concerned about screen time, c...

The campaign aims to steal credentials using spoof phishing pages hosted on legitimate domains

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A savvy phishing campaign manages to evade native Microsoft security defenses, looking to steal O365 credentials. A phishing campaign bent on stealing Microsoft login credentials is using Google Firebase to bypass email security measures in Microsoft Office 365, researchers said. Researchers at Armorblox uncovered invoice-themed emails sent to at least 20,000 mailboxes that purport to share information about an electronic funds transfer (EFT) payment. The emails carry a fairly vanilla subject l...

LogoKit Group Aims for Simple Yet Effective Phishing A phishing kit that uses embedded JavaScript targeted the users of more than 300 sites in the past week, aiming to grab credentials for SharePoint, Adobe Document Cloud, and OneDrive. A relatively new phishing kit uses embedded JavaScript to dynamically change elements of spoofed webpages to more easily fool users. The adoption of the phishing tool, called LogoKit, has seemingly accelerated, with 700 domains running the kit in the past month ...

Researchers said that unlike other phishing kits that take advantage of complex layouts and multiple files, the LogoKit family is an embeddable set of JavaScript functions. These kits interact within the Document Object Model (DOM), allowing the script to dynamically alter the visible content and HTML form data within a page without user interaction. RiskIQ security researcher Adam Castleman said his company had observed more than 700 domains running with LogoKit. Targeted services range from g...

minute read Share this article: A phishing kit has been found running on at least 700 domains – and mimicking services via false SharePoint, OneDrive and Office 365 login portals. A newly-uncovered phishing kit, dubbed LogoKit, eliminates headaches for cybercriminals by automatically pulling victims’ company logos onto the phishing login page. This gives attackers the tools needed to easily mimic company login pages, a task that can sometimes be complex. Cybercriminals have re...