For years we have been taught to be extra cautious when opening emails and to not click on links in unsolicited emails. Sadly this even applies to emails that appear to be from known sources (spear-phishing attempts). There are a number of “tells” one can look for when viewing the raw source code of the [Read More…]
Eric Company News, Cybersecurity, Digital Investigations, Website Security
On March 12th, 2020 CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward and a team of investigative reporters broke open a big story about a new Russian troll farm operating out of the west African country of Ghana and a second site in Nigeria (ref: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/world/russia-ghana-troll-farms-2020-ward/index.html). Her investigation led to the conclusion that this social media troll [Read More…]
Eric Digital Investigations, untitled
1) Go to https://business.google.com/ page and click on the “Sign In” link and login using your appropriate Gmail login account. 2) Click on your location in the center list of businesses if you manage more than one. 3) Click on the “Users” tab in the left-hand column 4) Click new user icon in upper [Read More…]
Eric Client News, Company News
By: C. Shawn Eib and Eric Ellason Every online platform has at one time or another dealt with their systems being misused by cyber criminals, either for hacking accounts, sending out spam, or infecting other users. The Twitter platform is no different and is also not immune to these problems. Less well known than Facebook [Read More…]
Eric Company News, Cybersecurity, Digital Investigations, Website Security
By: Eric Ellason and C. Shawn Eib A massive, sophisticated malware infection campaign, that has been ongoing for well over a year, compromised over 500,000 home and small business routers across 54 countries before the FBI, in coordination with the Shadowserver Foundation, seized a domain responsible for delivering further payloads to infected devices (ref) . [Read More…]
Eric Company News, Cybersecurity, Digital Investigations, Website Security