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Wednesday Newsbytes – News for You – 032322<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Every day we scan the tech world for news that affects all of us who use Windows computers. Today, we’re featuring some of the news articles that grabbed our attention over the past week. We hope you find this week’s\u00a0 “Wednesday Newsbytes” informative and interesting!<\/span><\/p>\n This sneaky type of phishing is growing fast because hackers are seeing big paydays<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Researchers warn about an increase in conversation hijacking emails, where hackers abuse accounts of people you trust to send you phishing links and malware.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n There’s been a steep rise in\u00a0phishing attacks<\/a>\u00a0that hijack legitimate, ongoing conversations between users to steal passwords, steal money, deliver\u00a0malware<\/a>\u00a0and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Phishing attacks have been a\u00a0cybersecurity issue for a long time<\/a>, with criminals sending out waves of emails in an attempt to dupe victims into clicking on malicious links, downloading malware or handing over their passwords via\u00a0fake login portals<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n They range from basic, generic attacks claiming that the victim has won a prize and they just need to click a link to retrieve it, to more targeted campaigns that send corporate emails designed to look legitimate for the intended target. For example, it’s common for cyber criminals to\u00a0send emails posing as the company’s CEO to that company’s employees<\/a>\u00a0in an attempt to trick the user into following orders from their ‘boss’.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But increasingly, cyber criminals are looking to exploit the actual email accounts of real users by hacking into accounts and hijacking ongoing conversations in order to send phishing emails.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read more at ZDNet<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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