“Federal Ministry of Agriculture” 419 spam
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We quickly shakedown a 419 spam mail currently in circulation.
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Just to show you that behind some PUPs there are threat actors that are too lazy to be bothered, we offer you a fake online scanner that was used to promote the infamous MacKeeper and a Windows system optimizer called Advance-System-Care.
Categories: … Continue reading A multi-purpose fake online scanner
Take a look at some fake “free game” sites found on Instagram. Anyone with children in their family who can’t get enough of freebies online may want to gently steer them away from the below. Everyone from PS4 to Nintendo gamers are potential targets.Ca… Continue reading Free console games on Instagram? Not exactly…
This bogus error site can’t decide if Windows or an iPad is at risk. Given the URL, you’d expect to see some sort of iPad related shenanigans taking place – an interesting twist on the well worn theme of tech support scams.Categories: Cybercrime
Soci… Continue reading iPad error? Windows fakeout
419 scams most commonly drop into your mailbox, but they do occasionally appear via other channels such as snail mail and social media. Today we’re going to take a look at an angle seemingly beloved of scammers everywhere – a specific character type cl… Continue reading Soldiering on: the $5.6 million 419 scam
We’ve looked at the social engineering tactic of inserting a fake account into a conversation with legitimate support channels in the past, and today – thanks to Techhelplist – we can observe another one, this time going after Natwest bank logins. See … Continue reading Scammers sneak into customer support conversations on Twitter
Typosquatting is a term you may have seen when reading about internet scams. In essence it relies on users making typing errors (typos) when entering a site or domain name.Categories: Cybercrime
Social engineeringTags: fakePieter Arntzthe more you kno… Continue reading Explained: typosquatting
Summer is nearly here, and with that comes the preparations for the largest gathering of security researchers on the planet. In early August, researchers, geeks, nerds, and other extremely cool people will descend upon the high desert of Las Vegas, Nevada to discuss the vulnerabilities of software, the exploits of hardware, and the questionable activities of government entities. This is Black Hat and DEF CON, when taken together it’s the largest security conference on the planet.
These conferences serve a very important purpose. Unlike academia, security professionals don’t make a name for themselves by publishing in journals. The pecking order …read more
FBI, check it out! First, ask Siri what time it is. Then you buy tones from App Store, hop on one foot and bite a chicken’s head off. Continue reading Unlock iPhone without passcode using Siri – video is bogus