Collaborate Disseminate
Two firms have been fined $26 million by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for scaring consumers into believing their computers were infected by malware.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Scareware scam: Restoro and Reimage fined $26 million by FTC
If you have been optimistically daydreaming that losses attributed to cybercrime might have reduced in the last year, it’s time to wake up.
The FBI’s latest annual Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report has just been published, and makes for s… Continue reading $12.5 billion lost to cybercrime, amid tidal wave of crypto investment fraud
Three Californian residents have been convicted of laundering millions of dollars tricked out of older adults who had fallen victim to government-imposter and tech support scams.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Three men found guilty of laundering $2.5 million in Target gift card tech support scam
The FBI warns that tech support scammers are increasingly telling their victims to send actual cash, concealed in newspaper or a magazine, rather than wiring funds.
But why?
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Tech support scammers trick victims into old-school offline money transfer
Multinational payment processing firm Nexway has been rapped across the knuckles by the US authorities, who claim that the firm knowingly processed fraudulent credit card payments on behalf of tech support scammers.
Read more in my article on the Tr… Continue reading FTC accuses payments firm of knowingly assisting tech support scammers
Fraudsters steal millions from those hoping to jump on the Bitcoin bandwagon, Twitter verifies a fake US politician, and it’s another face palm for facial recognition.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning… Continue reading Smashing Security #168: The Bitcoin fraud factory
A genuine Microsoft error message or security warning will never include a phone number. So don’t call it!
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Reports of tech support scams rocket, as fraudsters make a pretty penny
Criminals are exploiting users’ natural sense of curiosity with native advertisements to serve up tech support scam pages.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Taboola ads exploited to serve up tech support scams
Four people have been arrested after a two-year investigation by Microsoft and British police forces into telephone scams which prey upon the vulnerable, tricking them into believing their computers have been infected by malware.
Read more in my articl… Continue reading Four arrested as Microsoft and UK police team up to crack down on technical support scammers
US internet users are being targeted with technical support scams hosted on sites with numeric domain names.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Compromised websites redirecting tech support scam hosted on numeric domains