We’ve been tracking a fraudulent scheme involving renewal notifications for several months now. It came to our attention because the Malwarebytes…
Tag: tech support
What can you do as a scammer when no legitimate payment provider wants to process your payments anymore? Or, what if…
Update [01-27-2020]: Shortly after this blog was published we noticed that a large part of the infrastructure behind this browlock was…
Tech support scammers are reusing an old technique in their existing browser locker (browlock) schemes to force a special kind of…
Tech support scams continue to be one of the top consumer threats in 2018, despite actions from security vendors and law…
AmericaGeeks is your typical tech support scam company, but with an extra warming glow of attitude, greed, and complete all-around rudeness….
There are many different tech support scam (TSS) campaigns active at any given moment, the majority of them are fueled by malicious adverts…
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…
A lot of companies don’t make clear who their tech support is, what their relationship to that group is, and what…