Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
My personal delivery scam. I was working at my desk the other day, thinking about stopping for lunch, when I got the following text message: Now I was waiting for a delivery, I had ordered a camping kettle from AliExpress, but the last time I looked it was not scheduled …
…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 …
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 …
Continue reading “A scam though adware gets to both iOS and Android devices”
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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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
