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If you have ever contacted Microsoft for support in the past 14 years, your technical query, along with some personally identifiable information might have been compromised.
Microsoft today admitted a security incident that exposed nearly 250 million … Continue reading 250 Million Microsoft Customer Support Records Exposed Online
The trove of information is potentially a scammer’s bonanza. Continue reading Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
January 14, 2020, is a day cybersecurity stakeholders should pay attention to, as it marks the end of Microsoft support in Windows 7.
From a security perspective, both the routine monthly security patches as well as hotfixes for attacks in the wild wi… Continue reading Are You Ready for Microsoft Windows 7 End of Support on 14th January 2020?
Do you always uncomfortable trusting companies with your data? If so, you’re not alone.
While companies do much to protect themselves from external threats, insiders always pose the highest risk to a company’s data.
Unfortunately, when we say compani… Continue reading Rogue TrendMicro Employee Sold Customer Data to Tech Support Scammers
Office Depot and a tech support service have agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission a total of $35 million to settle charges they lied to customers by convincing them their products had been hacked, the FTC announced Wednesday. Office Depot and Support.com will pay $25 million and $10 million, respectively, for their role in a years-long scheme to use a software program, known as PC Health Check, as a tool to convince customers to buy tech support from Office Depot, the FTC said. A complaint alleges that both companies configured PC Health Check to report it had found malware based on whether customers agreed with statements such as “My PC recently became much slower or is too slow to use,” rather than true malware scans. Both companies knew about the problem as early as 2012 yet they continued marketing and using PC Health Check until late 2016, the FTC […]
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Automatic filters on our blog sometimes catch benign comments in their nets. However, they also protect users from spammers, scammers, and malicious links. Read on to learn about our comment policy: what we block and why.
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We first published on tech scammers America Geeks back in 2015 and again in 2016. This time, they opened a help ticket with us, requesting we take down our blog post—which warranted a phone call. Read on to learn how our conversation with Am… Continue reading A conversation with America Geeks
Tech-support scams took off during the year, while whaling/business email compromise was the main threat, accounting for losses of more than $675 million. Continue reading FBI: Cyber-Fraud Losses Rise to Reach $1.4B
The same group behind the Shoppers Stop tech scam campaign is at it again, injecting malicious ad code into thousands of sites and redirecting to a templated warning page.
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Browsers are usually the first point of contact between victims and threat actors. With a few bits of code, crooks manage once again to freeze Google Chrome and scare users into calling for assistance.
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Tags: chrome… Continue reading Tech support scammers find new way to jam Google Chrome