{"id":11689,"date":"2016-02-08T21:30:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T03:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=11689"},"modified":"2016-02-08T21:30:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T03:30:38","slug":"cyber-crime-update-cyber-criminals-getting-smarter-more-sophisticated-and-more-organized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/08\/cyber-crime-update-cyber-criminals-getting-smarter-more-sophisticated-and-more-organized\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Crime Update: Cyber Criminals Getting Smarter, More Sophisticated and More Organized"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"nigerian\"<\/p>\n

Just this morning alone I have received two specially crafted scam emails from cyber criminals targeting unsuspecting Nigerians (mostly those that have bank accounts). I must say I am impressed!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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I almost fell for this scam email even with my years of Information Security Research and Ethical Hacking. The reasons I almost fell for this scam are simply because.<\/p>\n

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  1. I am a UBA customer and I use their prepaid card for online transactions.<\/li>\n
  2. The from name is no-reply@udirect.com ( not the actual email address but the name of the sender).<\/li>\n
  3. The email is properly formatted.<\/li>\n
  4. The real Url is masked under http:\/\/www.ibank.ubagroup.com\/BVN<\/a>(Here is the real URL masked http:\/\/ow.ly\/XUJAM<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  5. The User interface is almost like the real one.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    When I clicked on the URL It took me to this fake website below.<\/p>\n

    To See the Website and Read the Remainder go to Medium<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Just this morning alone I have received two specially crafted scam emails from cyber criminals targeting unsuspecting Nigerians (mostly those that have bank accounts). I must say I am impressed! I almost fell for this scam email even with my years of Information Security Research and Ethical Hacking. The reasons I almost fell for this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2122,13,74,1317,4126,4333,2863,65,10],"tags":[223,1865,4475,4476],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}