With 117 million subscribers in 190 countries, Netflix is once again in the crosshairs of computer criminals after a series of messages requesting to update subscriber data illegally. Using the phishing technique, attackers attempt to deceive subscribers through apocryphal messages that attempt to impersonate the company by reporting a false membership expiration.
This false application requests that the user enter personal information, such as the account name, password or financial information, such as credit card numbers or ATM password, among many other data.
One of the messages sent comes from the account. support@shoplifeperu.com, which poses as the Netflix Spain technical support area. "Hello, we are experiencing problems with your current payment information. We will try again, but in the meantime please check that the information is up to date," the apocryphal email message details.
Due to the constant presence of fake messages using its image, Netflix has a series of tips to avoid these fake emails or suspicious text messages. Specifically, Netflix points out that you should never enter personal or financial information from a web link that comes from an email or SMS message. Furthermore, if in doubt, it advises manually typing the address www.netflix.com into a browser.
It also recommends never opening a link in any unsolicited email message, and advises reporting these cases at help.netflix.com/es/node/65674.
Updated on: 20/03/2018 00:00:00
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