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Each year, several million people fall for tech support scams and according to Microsoft, in 2015 alone crooks walked away with an estimated $1.5 billion. Malwarebytes has been actively engaged in the fight against tech support scammers overseas, but a… Continue reading Report: The Anatomy of Tech Support Scams
Tables were turned on a fake tech support line when a tech-savvy ‘victim’ played them at their own game. Continue reading Tech support scammer tricked into installing ransomware
Security researchers claim that oneindividual’s name and address are tied to 135 tech support scam domains, including 120 which are hosted on Internet domain registrar GoDaddy.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading The tech support scam king. 135 tech scam domains registered to one person
This post is a sequel to Tech support scammers using Winlogon. As we have found after writing that post there are many variants of this scam.Categories: Cybercrime
Social engineeringTags: +1-844-459-8882Pieter Arntzscamshelltech supportwinlogon(Read m… Continue reading Tech support scammer follow-up
Customer support powerhouse Zendesk is broadening its ever-expanding number of support channels today, as the company announced a brand new native channel for customer service over the text messages. SMS may be 20-year-old technology, but there’s a lot to be said for short bursts of asynchronous exchange of information. Read More Continue reading Customer support via SMS is about to get a lot easier, courtesy of Zendesk