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Extortionists Preying on Site Owners with Fake Website Hacking Scam
By David Bisson on Mon, 06/15/2020
Researchers found that extortionists are targeting website owners with a scam in which they claim to have hacked their site and extracted a database. WebARX observed that the ploy first makes itself known to website owners when they receive a ransom message from the attackers. In a sample note analyzed by the web application security platform, the...