Don’t Fall for Webcam Blackmail: Here’s How to Protect Yourself

By Waqas NordVPN Tips on How to Avoid Sextortion Scammers Who Claim to Have a Video of You on Adult Sites. Authorities and cybersecurity experts have issued a fresh warning about the so-called sextortion scam that is making a comeback with new variations. Webcam porn scams have been on the rise f...

Who’s Behind the Screencam Extortion Scam?

The sextortion email scam last month that invoked a real password used by each recipient and threatened to release embarrassing Webcam videos almost certainly was not the work of one criminal or even one group of criminals. Rather, it's likely that additional spammers and scammers piled on with...

Email Phishers Using New Way to Bypass Microsoft Office 365 Protections

Phishing works no matter how hard a company tries to protect its customers or employees. Security researchers have been warning of a new phishing attack that cybercriminals and email scammers are using in the wild to bypass the Advanced Threat Protection ATP mechanism implemented by widely used...

Fortnite Scammers Approaching $1m in Annual Takings

When something seems too good to be true, it probably is. It’s a hard lesson to learn and, in this case, one that’s being taught by scammers. The perpetrators are abusing the fact that online players of Battle Royale games may be very eager to get free in-game currency and items, and are willing ...

Email Phishers Using A Simple Way to Bypass MS Office 365 Protection

Security researchers have been warning about a simple technique that cyber criminals and email scammers are using in the wild to bypass most AI-powered phishing detection mechanisms implemented by widely used email services and web security scanners. Dubbed ZeroFont, the technique involves...

Epic Games Fortnite for Android–APK Downloads Leads to Malware

Given Fortnite's current popularity and craziness across the globe, we understand if you have been searching the web for download links to Fortnite APK for Android phone. However, you are not alone, thousands of people out there are also searching tutorials and links for, "how to install Fortnite...

74 arrested after FBI disrupts International gang of BEC scammers

By Waqas In a joint operation, the FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 74 arrested after FBI disrupts International gang of BEC scammers...

Japanese police to charge scammers with crypto mining without consent

By Waqas The investigators believe that the case involving crypto mining is This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Japanese police to charge scammers with crypto mining without consent...

Scammers hacked webcams to secretly record videos & post on YouTube

By Carolina Malicious hackers and scammers have always come up with complex yet This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Scammers hacked webcams to secretly record videos & post on YouTube...

A conversation with America Geeks

Thanks to NeeP for contributing significant research. You can check out NeeP's YouTube channel here. Malwarebytes has written quite a bit about tech support scammers, typically focusing on new scam techniques as they arise with new threat actor groups. But sometimes our research discovers scammer...

Will the Real Joker’s Stash Come Forward?

For as long as scam artists have been around so too have opportunistic thieves who specialize in ripping off other scam artists. This is the story about a group of Pakistani Web site designers who apparently have made an impressive living impersonating some of the most popular and well known...

Kidnapping Fraud

Fake kidnapping fraud: "Most commonly we have unsolicited calls to potential victims in Australia, purporting to represent the people in authority in China and suggesting to intending victims here they have been involved in some sort of offence in China or elsewhere, for which they're being held...

Where did the tech support scam blacklist go?

For about five years, we've maintained a blacklist of recognized tech support scammers, along with websites and phone numbers they might use to contact victims. The blacklist was part of our Tech support scams: help and resource page, which tells readers how scams work, what tricks to look out fo...

Scammers bought Twitter ads to run verified badge phishing scam

By Waqas Would you believe that the verification program approved by Twitter This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Scammers bought Twitter ads to run verified badge phishing scam...

Leveraging the Power of AI to Stop Email Scammers

Staff members are on the frontline when it comes to cyberattacks against their employers. They’re increasingly seen by hackers as a weak link in the cybersecurity chain. That’s why most threats today come via email, aimed squarely at tricking the recipient into downloading malware, divulging...

Cryptomining is all the rage among hackers, as DDoS amplification attacks continue

In this week’s InfoSec news review we’ll dive into cryptomining, get the latest on DDoS amplification, go over recent data breaches, and check out another vendor claiming it can crack iPhones. I, me, mine The freight train that’s cryptomining shows no sign of slowing down, and the cyber security...

Austria seeks Interpol’s help to bust Bitcoin scammers who stole $115M

By Waqas Another day another Bitcoin scam in which unsuspected users have This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Austria seeks Interpol's help to bust Bitcoin scammers who stole $115M...

Spam and phishing in 2017

Figures of the year The share of spam in mail traffic came to 56.63%, down 1.68% against 2016. The biggest source of spam remains the US 13.21%. 40% of spam emails were less than 2 KB in size. The most common malware family found in mail traffic was Trojan-Downloader.JS.Sload The Anti-Phishing...

Boomerang spam bombs Malwarebytes forum—not a smart move

Tech support scammers are generally not the best and brightest. As such, they will occasionally post ads for their fake companies in the comment sections here or on the Malwarebytes forums. Last week, however, scammers struggled with configuring their spambots, resulting in spam bombs on the foru...

Search engine shenanigans: Malwarebytes mentions aren’t what they seem

Thing might be a touch quiet at the moment as we ease into 2018, but that doesn't mean dubious antics and dodgy dealings aren't still making waves online. As a matter of fact, should you go searching for some of our researchers, their blog posts, or just a couple of notable quotables from news...