It appears that those who have been (and still are) involved in technical support scams have took on a new role to…
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Hijacked Email Account Wants $2,800 for Emergency Surgery
Here’s one from the “My friend’s email account was hacked and this is what was sent out” pile: HELLO,Sorry to bother…
Fake “Microsoft Official Promotion” Email Offers £450,000 Prize
We begin the week with a fake “Microsoft Official Promotion” scam which attempts to convince recipients that they’ve won £450,000. They’re also…
Fresh Phish: A Roundup of Campaigns in the Wild
We’ve spotted three different phishing campaigns, each targeting specific clientèle of services they mimic. For the purpose of brevity, we’ve only…
Steam Keygen Video Leads to PUPs Galore
Fans of Steam beware: there are YouTube videos currently in circulation claiming to offer a Steam Key Generator, which supposedly hands out…
Attack of the Zombie Orkut Phishing Pages
We have a retro-tinged phish for you today, illustrating how even a long dead website can be a danger to your logins….
The Grey Side of Mobile Advertising
Mobile advertising is a headache because of its intrusiveness, the amount of bandwidth used, and other unexpected nefarious behaviors. I get…
WhatsApp Elegant Gold Hits the Digital Catwalk
Late last year, a scam targeted users of WhatsApp called “Whatsapp Gold” was simply a way of extracting phone numbers and potentially charging…
Fake Twitter Verification Profile leads to Phishing, Credit Card Theft
The lure of having your Twitter account verified is too much for some people to resist, and sure enough we’ve come…
Of Counterfeit Sites and Denali Jackets
At hpHosts, Malwarebytes’s trusted blacklist of malicious sites, we also receive tip-offs or reports from users about one or two dodgy URLs…