Sentences with phrase «when phishing sites»

When phishing sites tried to con investors during its recent ICO, Blockstack used its tech expertise to turn the tables on the tricksters.

Not exact matches

When we checked the bitcoin address given by the phishing site, we found that it had no transactions and no balance.

«By looking at these three measures together, we were able to show that users do not spend enough time analyzing key phishing indicators, and often fail at detecting phishing attacks even when they are mentally engaged in the task and subconsciously processing real sites differently from fake sites,» said Nitesh Saxena, Ph.D., the director of the Security and Privacy In Emerging computing and networking Systems (SPIES) lab and associate professor of computer and information sciences at UAB.

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«When I saw it, my immediate thought was, «This is a very similar social engineering attack to a phishing site,»» Shamas said.

AVG even notifies you when you've navigated to a known phishing site, so your web browsing will be a little safer.

For example, a not insignificant number of people were scammed for their private keys when visiting a phishing site that claimed to allow them to check on the balance of, or get access to, their bitcoin gold.

The company says its testing the new predictive phishing protections in Chrome now, and that soon when users type a Google account password into a suspected phishing site, it will add «additional protections» to ensure their account isn't compromised, which will apply even if they change browsers.

When we checked the bitcoin address given by the phishing site, we found that it had no transactions and no balance.

The email seems to be sent from an official Bitcoin wallet or exchange, however when you click on the link inside the email, you'll be forwarded to a phishing site or have malicious software installed on your computer.