Tag: Fonts
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Florida Man Accused of Hacking Disney World Menus, Changing Font to Wingdings
With just days to go until the 2024 presidential election in the United States, WIRED reported on documents that revealed US government …
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Font security ‘still a Helvetica of a problem’ says Australian graphics outfit Canva
Online graphic design platform Canva went looking for security problems in fonts, and found three – in “strange places.” On its …
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ZeroFont Phishing: Hackers Manipulating Font Size to Bypass Office 365 Security
A new but ancient technique for Phishing emails has been recently identified called ZeroFont Phishing. Threat actors have followed several …
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Tiny Font Size Fools Email Filters in BEC Phishing
A new business email compromise (BEC) campaign targeting Microsoft 365 users is using a range of sophisticated obfuscation tactics within …
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Windows Zero-Day Attack Lets Hackers Hide Malicious Code in Fonts
The vulnerability exists in the Adobe Type Manager Library, a Windows DLL file that numerous programs use to render fonts. This file is …
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Font Fingerprinting
Websites may not be able to identify you, but they can probably identify your web browser. Your browser sends a lot of information back to …
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Microsoft font gives away forgery in bankruptcy case
In a case that could be straight out of a legal TV drama, a computing font has cost a couple two houses in a Canadian bankruptcy case. The …
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Phishing Template Uses Fake Fonts
A unique phishing template using fake fonts to evade detection and to better steal user credentials for a major US bank has been …
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Font of pwnage: Crims poison well with crypto-jacking code, trickles into PDF editor app
Crooks mounted a crypto-mining scam after hacking into a supplier of an unnamed PDF editor software vendor. Microsoft has reported that …
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Fake Chrome & Firefox Font Update Drops RAT and Locky Ransomware
Google Chrome with 2 billion active users is the most used web browser in the world. At the same time, Firefox has over 1 billion active users making these two perfect and lucrative targets for hackers and cyber criminals. Read full news article on HackRead
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Fake Chrome Font Update Attack Distributes Backdoor
Fingerprinting capabilities included in the injected code trigger the attack if certain criteria are met (targeted country, correct User-Agent (Chrome on Windows) and proper referer). If the social engineering scheme is successful and the user accepts to install the fake font pack, a file named Font_Chrome.exe is downloaded and executed, and their system is infected…
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