It’s a sad day when we have to warn people about medical charity scams, or tax fakeouts, or even have a…
Tag: scams
Instagram accounts will always be a popular target for scammers. You might not think it’s a big deal if someone has…
Dutch police departments and consumer organizations issued warnings about the use of the Nextdoor neighborhood app because people received letters (yes,…
Update (2019-09-04): A new wave of sextortion emails purporting to have originated from a group of hackers called ChaosCC—a play on…
“Excuse me sir, can I ask you for a favor? I want to pay for parking my car in this spot,…
UPDATE August 2, 2019: The US Federal Trade Commission has warned consumers that, due to the high number of claims made…
Here’s an interesting evolution on a well-worn scam, taking one profit generating fakeout and turning it into something else entirely. For years,…
Tech support scammers are known for engaging in a game of whack-a-mole with defenders. Case in point, last month there were…
In their Website Hack Trend Report, web security company Sucuri noted that WordPress infections rose to 90 percent in 2018. One aspect…
Last week on Labs, we looked back at 2018 as the year of data breaches, homed in on pre-installed malware on…