Tag: Fonts
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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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Forged Documents and Microsoft Fonts
Forged Documents and Microsoft Fonts A set of documents in Pakistan were detected as forgeries because their fonts were not in circulation at the time the documents were dated. Tags: Read full news article on Schneier on Security
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