Tech Support Scammers Cast a Wider Net

Tech support scams may be old hat, but scammers are constantly reinventing them. The latest involves a wave of phishing emails that have proven to be a powerful tool for hackers to trick and ultimately extract money from victims. The Microsoft Malware Protection Center reported Monday it’s tracki...

Links in phishing-like emails lead to tech support scam

Note: Our Tech support scams FAQ page has the latest info on this type of threat, including scammer tactics, fake error messages, and the latest scammer hotlines. You can also read our latest blog, New tech support scam launches communication or phone call app. Tech support scams continue to...

IRS Warns Tax Professionals of New Scam to Steal Passwords

The Internal Revenue Service IRS, acting in concert with state tax agencies and the tax industry, has issued an IRS Security Summit Alert for tax professionals to beware of a new phishing email scam. Scam operators often use fraudulent e-mails to entice their targets to reveal login credentials...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID29835: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on July 17, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54505 First Published: 2017 July 17 20:49 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID29835 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Suspicious Site Containing Tech Scams

Many scams have emerged looking to steal money or information by giving users false information claiming that their computers are infected. After such claims they give the users a phone number to call or a way to pay to solve their issues. A successful attack can lead to stolen credentials or mon...

AlphaBay Shut Down After Police Raid; Alleged Founder Commits Suicide in Jail

AlphaBay Market — one of the largest Dark Web marketplaces for drugs, guns, and other illegal goods — that mysteriously went dark earlier this month without any explanation from its admins has reportedly been shut down by the international authorities. On July 4th, the dark web marketplace sudden...

The Slippery Slope Starts with "Get 2 Free Airline Tickets"

Written by Or Katz and Raviv Perets A widespread phishing scam that offers free airline tickets has been spotted in the wild by Akamai's Enterprise Threat Protector ETP security research team. The campaign uses a number of social engineering techniques to trick people into providing their private...

Report: Second quarter dominated by ransomware outbreaks

The second quarter of 2017 brought ransomware to unprecedented levels with worldwide outbreaks that went almost out of control. In scenarios reminiscent of yesteryears worms, WannaCry created global panic as it used a critical vulnerability in the SMBv1 protocol to propagate like wildfire. Within...

AlphaBay Dark Web Market Goes Down; Users Fear Exit-Scam

AlphaBay Market, one of the largest Dark Web marketplaces for drugs, guns, and other illegal goods, suddenly disappeared overnight without any explanation from its admins, leaving its customers who have paid large sums in panic. AlphaBay, also known as "the new Silk Road," has been shut down sinc...

Classic Ether Wallet Compromised via Social Engineering

Classic Ether Wallet, an open source wallet for the public, blockchain-based cryptocurrency platform Ethereum Classic ETC was compromised late last week. Developers of the decentralized platform said an attacker managed to hijack the domain for the wallet via social engineering late Thursday...

A week in security (June 19 – June 25)

Last week, we expanded on all the different technologies that Malwarebytes uses to break the attack chain and our Incident Response solution. We also warned you about a Roblox Robux generator scam and a phish targeting customers of Barclays Bank. Below are notable news stories and security-relate...

Suspicious URL Containing Multiple Top Level Domains

Many scam websites attempt to look like regular websites in order to steal information. One technique is to have multiple top level domains in the URL in order to confuse the user. A successful attack can lead to stolen information...

Got Robocalled? Don’t Get Mad; Get Busy.

Several times a week my cell phone receives the telephonic equivalent of spam: A robocall. On each occasion the call seems to come from a local number, but when I answer there is that telltale pause followed by an automated voice pitching some product or service. So when I heard from a reader who...

The Roblox Robux generator is too good to be true

Roblox is an enormously popular MMORPG title for kids available on both PC and console, and it suffers no end of scammers trying to fleece its players as a result. While the game tries to block and filter text/URLs and comes with additional security features, potentially dubious sites also bounce...

scam-detector.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.scam-detector.com/search/Ij48aW1nX3NyYz14X29uZXJyb3I9cHJvbXB0KC9PUEVOQlVHQk9VTlRZLyk+Ig== Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 11.09.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 253999 VIP websi...

Abuse of Apple Search Ads Feature Leading to Fraud

Apple has removed one of its top 10 grossing productivity apps after an independent developer’s story about fraudsters’ abuse of the App Store’s Search Ads functionality went viral. Search Ads is a new feature available to iOS developers that allows them to invest in the promotion of their apps...

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 the browser lockers, or bundled software the screen lockers. Something interesting happened recently, where legitimate - but hacked - websites would redirect t...

Two Tickets as Bait

Over the previous weekend, social networks were hit with a wave of posts that falsely claimed that major airlines were giving away tickets for free. Users from all over the world became involved in this: they published posts that mentioned Emirates, Air France, Aeroflot, S7 Airline, Eva Air,...

Creator of Bitcoin Mining Schemes faces $12 Million for Ponzi Scam

Every time a new topic trends on the Internet, scammers take advantage of it. You must have heard of Bitcoin and how in recent days it has made some early investors millionaire overnight. Yes, the Bitcoin boom is back, and it's real — a digital currency that has just crossed a new milestone today...

Dedicated Machine Learning Behind Early Phishing Detection in Gmail

Cybercrime and state-sponsored advanced attacks continue to cling to email as a primary distribution vehicle for first-stage malware. Phishing campaigns thrive in targeted attacks, and criminals have even resuscitated old-school macro malware in attachments to gain that initial foothold on a...