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 apparently…
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As much as game sales are seasonal, so are some scams targeting video gamers.This particular type of scam—one we’ve seen time and time again…
Mobile advertising is a headache because of its intrusiveness, the amount of bandwidth used, and other unexpected nefarious behaviors.I get it,…
We’ve seen a number of phishing attempts targeting users of Facebook, and just like the campaign we’ve seen in February last year, the…
Late last year, a scam targeted users of WhatsApp called “Whatsapp Gold” was simply a way of extracting phone numbers and potentially charging…
The lure of having your Twitter account verified is too much for some people to resist, and sure enough we’ve come…
Voice Comms have slowly but surely become a popular target of scams in the past [1], [2], as gamers hope to make use of…
At hpHosts, Malwarebytes’s trusted blacklist of malicious sites, we also receive tip-offs or reports from users about one or two dodgy URLs…
It was inevitable that unscrupulous individuals would take advantage of the recent theme park tragedy, and sure enough we’re seeing reports…
While searching for potentially bogus key generators (or keygens) for our Malwarebytes products, we encountered a supposed tool for Kaspersky Anti-Virus. The…