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Freebies are awesome, aren’t they? True, but when interacting with some Internet resources that promise the moon and don’t charge a penny, users are better off learning to separate the wheat from the chaff. The free streaming portal Soap2Day might appear to carry through with its claims, but upon closer inspection, it doesn’t look as […]
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Fraudulent online activities and browser hijacking go hand in hand. Scammers are heavily cashing in on this combo of social engineering and malware because it gets users on the hook regardless of their custom Internet settings, web surfing habits, and the web browser they prefer. Carlbendergogo.com is a landing page in one of such hoaxes […]
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Cybercrime doesn’t necessarily come down to creating and distributing super-complex malware that makes a mess of users’ computers or mobile devices. It’s also about social engineering in its pure form, which is a relatively effortless vector that might be just as effective. For instance, DigitsPro email scam is aimed at defrauding people of money by […]
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They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Among other things, this holds true for lots of computer-related scenarios where users catch malicious code when trying to get freebies. Torrenting is a good example because it’s often a mixed blessing. While providing a way to download videos and audio files without any fees, […]
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Ever heard of the Chaos Computer Club, an association of hacktivists with German roots? Unless you are a security geek, you probably haven’t. A recent wave of email scams, though, has increased the average layman’s awareness about this community, except that it uses an abbreviated form of the name – the ChaosCC hacker group. Here’s […]
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Proper user experience is hard to provide and amazingly easy to deteriorate. There are online entities like en.savefrom.net that somehow manage to do both. One the one hand, the service in question allows people to download streaming materials. On the other, unlike benign providers, it ends up harshly interfering with one’s web browsing in several […]
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In a paradigm of electronic systems getting constantly better at defenses, cybercriminals are looking for easier ways of compromise than ‘classic’ malware injection. In this context, phishing attacks come to the fore as they zero in on humans rather than computers. The Netflix email scam is a prime example of such a modern exploitation vector. […]
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Amazon’s hefty user base is a goldmine for online fraudsters, because it spans people who are perfectly comfortable with the idea of buying goods on the Internet and hence have their credit card information tied to their accounts. Phishing through stratagems like the account-alert@amazon.com scam is the most common way for crooks to take over […]
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Ransomware campaigns are gradually mutating towards a targeted approach and a larger attack surface. Few present-day lineages are going after individual users – instead, the focus is on big enterprises that can afford to pay fortunes just to get their proprietary data back. The new sample called MegaCortex fits the mold of such a novel […]
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Although there are plenty of computer attack vectors involving complex malware, online criminals favor effortless ways of gaining profit. Various social engineering hoaxes are therefore on the rise, focusing on deceit rather than distribution of harmful code. In the case of the “Save Yourself” email fraud, though, the felons may be leveraging viruses alongside commonplace […]
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