The two main causes of cyber threats that emerged last year The are the fact that most of the population uses home/public Internet connections that are highly vulnerable and unsafe to cybercrime to work, learn, shop, or run their business from home.
Cybercriminals use the COVID-19 contact to exploit people and organizations through bad emails and domain names. For example, many scammers have launched campaigns offering COVID-19 vaccines, free medical tests/test kits, donations to pandemic relief funds, information about the COVID-19 situation, and new business opportunities. Some have even launched fake e-commerce websites selling safety, health, and cleaning products for COVID-19.
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A new deceptive security trick could allow enable attackers to take over gain control of users' accounts . An attacker doesn't need without requiring any coding or technical information to get their hands on the email accountknowledge. All he the attacker needs is your phone number and email address. This new deceptive password recovery technique because the password reset process is the same on almost all email services, Gmail affects all web email services, including Yahoo and Outlook.
An SMS is sent from a foreign number to the victim's phone. To secure their Gmail account, the victim is required to respond to the verification code, but in reality, it will be a password reset code. After one or two ongoing steps, the victim's Google account is hacked. What are we going to do to stop this? If a code about your Google, Yahoo, Outlook accounts comes come to your mobile phone by SMS from a foreign number, do not reply to this SMS and check if you can access your account via the method as you always access, change it if you've been using the same password for a long time, or if you're using the same password on multiple web services.