“My brain is like an internet browser. I have 17 tabs open, 3 of them are frozen and I have no idea where the music is coming from.”
This is a typical joke to explain the complexity of the human mind or a typical working day. But if we look at it from a cybersecurity point of view, it literally happens to all of us every day.
Today we want to warn you that there is a cyberattack (called TABNABBING) by which the cybercriminal detects the web browser windows we have open and replaces them with fake pages.
So if we have recently consulted a corporate platform, a cloud, a social network, an online store or our bank, and we have not closed that tab at the end, even leaving the session open in some cases, the next time we click on it may no longer be the official website. Although visually it seems that page could have been manipulated in the time that we have not actively used it. This way they get us to trust blindly and enter the requested data, thinking that it is the same website.
RECOMMENDATION: After using a website, it is important to close that tab in the browser. Even if it is a website that we consult every day. You can save it in favorites, but do not leave it open as such. If we keep it open, there is a high risk that the next time we access it, it will have been replaced by a cybercriminal and we will give him our username and password or other confidential data with total confidence.
IMPORTANT NOTE: We remind you again that if you have the slightest suspicion that you are suffering a security problem or the certainty that it is a cyber-attack, do not hesitate to communicate it to the IT department, so that they can advise you appropriately. And on a personal level he reports the cyberattack to the police authority.
*Shipment date: August 25, 2025