Tech support scammers have been relying on fraudulent pop-ups for many years in order to scare potential victims into calling for…
Tag: TSS
Tech support scammer tries to sell free software
AmericaGeeks is your typical tech support scam company, but with an extra warming glow of attitude, greed, and complete all-around rudeness….
FTC providing partial refunds for Advanced Tech Support victims
Last month, the FTC announced the recovery of 10 million dollars from Advanced Tech Support, one of the most successful US-based…
The numeric tech support scam campaign
There are many different tech support scam (TSS) campaigns active at any given moment, the majority of them are fueled by malicious adverts…
Tech support scams: what are other people doing?
We’ve talked a lot about tech support scams over the past few years, typically focused on what we see ourselves, and…
System optimizers turning to tech support scams
A new trend, which was also pointed out in our Q1 cybercrime report, is the combination of PUPs and Tech Support…
iCloud support scams
iCloud is an increasingly large target for scams of all kinds. It’s a common target for scams involving phishing e-mails. The…
Do I have Malwarebytes or a tech support scam?
A lot of companies don’t make clear who their tech support is, what their relationship to that group is, and what…
Tech support scammers and their banking woes
We all know about tech support scams by this point. We know how they cold call, lie their way into your…
Advanis tech support screenlocker
Recently we noticed a change on one of the domains that we monitor because they are known to host files related to…