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It’s pretty normal for various online services to show up in your hosting account’s bandwidth logs, thanks to various “bots” (automated software) that are looking for information from your site. Every website online will have a normal background noise of … read more Facebook May Be Abusing Your Website With It’s facebookexternalhit Bot
I recently received an even more blatant example of phishing in my inbox… it claims to be sent by an admin for cPanel, involving undelivered messages. They use that because they know that people will worry about missing emails, and … read more Fake cPanel Administrator Emails
You almost have to admire the gall it takes to use a fake email supposedly warning you about suspicious activity on your account, to trick you into clicking a link that then downloads malware giving someone access to your account. … read more Fake Notification Phishing
Notice from https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/11583528 Google Analytics 4 is our next-generation measurement solution, and it’s replacing Universal Analytics. On July 1, 2023, standard Universal Analytics properties will stop processing data. We strongly encourage you to make the switch to Google Analytics 4 as soon as possible … read more Universal Analytics is going away
I’ve been seeing more and more of the “fake account warning” types of phishing emails lately, so am assuming others are as well. In the last week I’ve seen about ten of these types in my inbox: They use several … read more Scam: MaiIbox Storage Quota Limit
Yet another example in the long line of emails meant to scare you into clicking a link and giving away the keys to your kingdom… this one mimics notifications sent by some services that let you know when a different … read more Fake Email Notifications – Yet Another Phishing Example