Last week on Labs, we looked at the case of a fake Android AV, an annoying adware that goes by the…
Tag: tech support scam
For about five years, we’ve maintained a blacklist of recognized tech support scammers, along with websites and phone numbers they might…
AmericaGeeks is your typical tech support scam company, but with an extra warming glow of attitude, greed, and complete all-around rudeness….
Last month, the FTC announced the recovery of 10 million dollars from Advanced Tech Support, one of the most successful US-based…
In Q1 and Q2 of 2017, we noticed a sharp decline in drive-by downloads coming from compromised websites. The campaigns of…
Terror EK is an exploit kit made from a mishmash of stolen code and with very limited distribution. In the past few months,…
There are many different tech support scam (TSS) campaigns active at any given moment, the majority of them are fueled by malicious adverts…
We’ve talked a lot about tech support scams over the past few years, typically focused on what we see ourselves, and…
A new trend, which was also pointed out in our Q1 cybercrime report, is the combination of PUPs and Tech Support…
iCloud is an increasingly large target for scams of all kinds. It’s a common target for scams involving phishing e-mails. The…