Collaborate Disseminate
Feds win technical victory against an alleged campaign to fool customers. The FTC claims Office Depot and Support.com deliberately lied to consumers, saying their PCs were infected with malware. However, the scanning tool they used didn’t actually sca… Continue reading Office Depot and Support.com to Pay $35M for Fake Malware Scan ‘Scam’
I don’t believe I’ve ever done a video blog, but I wanted to show you what it looks like when we look at a fake malware pop-up. While I was prepping a lecture for a class I’m teaching by looking at something on Encyclopedia Britannica, I experien… Continue reading Fake Malware Pop-up Example
Android, iOS, phishing, privacy, macOS, Signal app.
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CyberByte has stolen Malwarebytes’ intellectual property, and has been using our data without permission in their CyberByte Antivirus software.
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The Register: ‘Mummy, what’s felching?’ Tot gets smut served by Android app – Google’s Play Store fails again Actually, I didn’t know about felching, either, and I wish I hadn’t looked it up. Based on… Continue reading ‘AdultSwine’ – Android malware with a dirty mind
‘AdultSwine’ – Android malware with a dirty mind, a penchant for fake AV, and expensive tastes in subscriptions.
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Security researchers have identified a new phishing campaign launched by Russian cyberespionage group Fancy Bear that uses rogue blogspot.com URLs to bypass spam filters. These latest attacks were aimed at Bellingcat, a group of volunteers who perform … Continue reading Fancy Bear Cyberspies Hide Phishing Pages Behind Blogspot Links
Authorities in Spain have arrested a Russian computer programmer thought to be one of the world’s most notorious spam kingpins.
Spanish police arrested Pyotr Levashov under an international warrant executed in the city of Barcelona, according to Reuters. Russian state-run television station RT (formerly Russia Today) reported that Levashov was arrested while vacationing in Spain with his family.
According to numerous stories here at KrebsOnSecurity, Levashov was better known as “Severa,” the hacker moniker used by a pivotal figure in many popular Russian-language cybercrime forums. Severa was the moderator for the spam subsection of multiple online communities, and in this role served as the virtual linchpin connecting virus writers with huge spam networks that Severa allegedly created and sold himself. Continue reading Alleged Spam King Pyotr Levashov Arrested
Beware of Antivirus Free 2016 in the Google Play story, it could very easily be confused for a legitimate AV scanner.Categories: Cybercrime
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