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 …
Fonts
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 …
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 …
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 …
You Can Send Invisible Messages With Subtle Font Tweaks
for the deeper meaning of an essay or article, consider the possibility that it may not be in the words themselves, but hidden in the shape …
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
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 … Read more
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
Font sharing site DaFont has been hacked, exposing thousands of accounts
A popular font sharing site DaFont.com has been hacked, exposing the site’s entire database of user accounts. Usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords of 699,464 user accounts were stolen in the breach, carried out earlier this month, by a hack who would not divulge his name. Read full news article on ZDNet