Keep your cool, arm yourself with the right knowledge, and other tips for staying unshaken by fraudsters’ scare tactics. We live in fast-paced and often worrying times, and fraudsters are primed to take advantage. Fear can be a powerful weapon and scammers know how to instill it in people and coerce them into taking specific … More Don’t panic and other tips for staying safe from scareware
ESET Ireland encounters an interesting phishing scammer on DoneDeal. A couple of years ago, ESET Ireland has already covered some of this scamming in Scammers looking for victims on DoneDeal.ie. This time around one of our own employees had a similar experience when selling his car online. Contacted through the website by someone calling himself … More Blair is a DoneDeal scammer
Video games, websites and even apps are all in the sights of hackers hungry for better scores, more money and public notoriety. In the world of cybersecurity, some targets are obvious. For example, financial service providers and the retail stores aren’t rarely targeted as they hold lots of money. Hacking a media organisation, meanwhile, can … More 5 ways attackers are targeting gamers
ESET has discovered over 30 scareware applications available for download from the Google Play store. The malicious applications, which pretended to be cheats for the popular Minecraft game, have been installed by more than 600.000 Android users. It’s not easy to slip a malicious application into Google’s official Play Store these days. Google’s automated application … More Scareware: Fake Minecraft apps Scare Hundreds of Thousands on Google Play
Long a puzzling challenge, the FBI seems to be making strides in tackling international coordinated scams, in this case, scareware. Scareware, the practice of providing fake infection notifications to users’ computers, and then offering to sell solutions to problems that don’t exist, has been quite a boon as of late for fraudsters. FBI claims the … More CyberThreats Daily: FBI nabs international “scareware” ring
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