…but isn’t that what a scammer would say? Here is an interesting situation to start off the cyber news week. How do you convince people your official website and service is not a scam? The Government is constantly having to do this for their Household Response Service. UK gov keeps …
A scam though adware gets to both iOS and Android devices
Vastflux is a scam on a huge scale, millions of phones impacted through thousands of compromised apps. These apps are adware, the ones who are feeding you adverts as their revenue stream – don’t buy the app, we will send you unobtrusive adverts inside. Many of these adware apps make …
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Social engineering – your trust abused on YouTube
Here is a story featuring another Google product – that makes a huge profit for Google – that is being used and abused by threat actors against legitimate users: Convincing ‘YouTube’ Google ads lead to Windows support scams (bleepingcomputer.com) If you just make the YouTube videos look as though they …
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A new twist on cyber extortion – fake reviews
The telecoms company circle.cloud has had a large number of one -star reviews on Google – and now have received a request for payment to have them taken down! Telecoms firm hit by fake Google reviews blackmail scam – BBC News
ATM scams and some common sense cyber security defence tactics
The FBI has reported scams being run involving victims transferring money from their accounts having been provided with a QR code by the scammers to facilitate the transfer. To their crypto-currency wallets. https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2021/PSA211104 This was reported by Bruce Schneier. Wire Fraud Scam Upgraded with Bitcoin – Bruce Schneier Just make …
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More on securing your digital life
I blogged last week about some articles recommended by Bruce Schneier. There is a third part to the series. Securing Your Smartphone – Bruce Schneier Securing your digital life, part three: How smartphones make us vulnerable – Ars technica The article starts with a great quote: There are, by some …
Festive Scams – everyone needs to be vigilant and share your knowledge
I think by now we all understand that hacking and scamming is an operation for profit without conscience or morals. The BBC has this warning article showing that young or old, tech savvy or not everyone can be a victim of theses con-artists. ‘We lost festive savings in family WhatsApp …
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