Results for 'tech support scam'
Tech support scammers abuse native ad and content provider Taboola to serve malvertising (updated)
September 28, 2017 - A large number of publishers – big and small – are monetizing their sites by selling space for companies that provide...
The numeric tech support scam campaign
June 13, 2017 - There are many different tech support scam (TSS) campaigns active at any given moment, the majority of them are fueled by malicious adverts...
Tech support scams: what are other people doing?
June 7, 2017 - We’ve talked a lot about tech support scams over the past few years, typically focused on what we see ourselves, and...
System optimizers turning to tech support scams
April 27, 2017 - A new trend, which was also pointed out in our Q1 cybercrime report, is the combination of PUPs and Tech Support...
Do I have Malwarebytes or a tech support scam?
April 25, 2017 - A lot of companies don’t make clear who their tech support is, what their relationship to that group is, and what...
Tech support scammers and their banking woes
March 30, 2017 - We all know about tech support scams by this point. We know how they cold call, lie their way into your...
Free antivirus coupon leads to tech support scam
March 3, 2017 - In a previous blog post, we showed how users were redirected to a tech support scam page via a rogue Google...
Rogue Chrome extension pushes tech support scam
February 21, 2017 - Given Google Chrome’s popularity, it is no surprise to see it being more and more targeted these days. In particular, less...
Tech support scam page triggers denial-of-service attack on Macs
January 5, 2017 - Tech support scammers have been using various themes to push fake alerts to scare users into calling for assistance. These fall into...
Tech support scams, stolen data, and botnets
December 15, 2016 - NOTE: thanks to the Wack0lian for research contributions It would seem that scams as a service are a growth business...
