Cybercriminals are attacking virtual private networks, or VPNs, in order to access private information on users personal computers. These cybercriminals are spread a malicious trojan by recreating known, popular and trusted IT sites and getting users to click false links. This malicious trojan is seeking to gain information such as: user browser history, login credentials, cookies, files and folders. This information is valuable because it holds vital card information and/or social security numbers, addresses, date of births and etc. Besides that, false links were also spread through advertisements that marketed fake things. Once clicking the advertisement users computers were then attacked. Read more about it!
https://www.techradar.com/news/hackers-impersonate-popular-vpn-service-to-steal-cryptocurrency
LIS 4022 Spring 2020 