Not all premium scam alerts are useful, but that doesn't mean that premium rate telephone scams aren't a significant problem.
New variations on the 'pay us to fix your non-existent viruses' scam: Windows Indexing, the Frost Virus, and scam globalization.
Even if you really do have an infected system, it doesn't mean that anyone who rings out of the blue knows as...
Phishing scams and online shopping. Part 2 of a three-part article on phishing scams old and new, and some of the ways...
As you may know, October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month in America, which is a good time to ask yourself how...
As the Better Business Bureau recently warned, scam artists are gearing up for the Presidential election season. So what pitfalls do consumers...
More on the Gaelic ransomware, and how to spot ransomware in your own language, even if you aren't Irish.
After Event Viewer, ASSOC, INF, PREFETCH and Task Manager, it seems that VERIFY is the latest system utility to be misused by...
Today I received the following message in my inbox, claiming to be from the Asian Domain Registration Service and warning me that...
There are always people who want to piggy-back on the achievements of others. After ESET warned the public against ACAD/Medre.A in two...
Just as I was putting the finishing touches on a blog post about the need to keep your data and devices safe...
In the middle of working on a blog post about SMS phishing scams at my desk last night, I received a rather...
At ESET, we spend a great deal of time researching the latest technologies and how they may be affected by frauds and...
Internet Storm Center is running a poll on Fake Tech Support Calls, also the topic of a paper for VB 2012.
As well as misusing Event Viewer, ASSOC or a system CLSID, scammers hijack "prefetch" and "inf" to con victims into believing they...
Facecrooks has flagged a scam that has apparently already tricked 300,000 people into Liking a scam page.
Tomorrow, on January 18, 2012, dozens of popular websites covering a diverse range of subjects will be blacking out their home pages...
ESET Ireland's Urban Schrott has found an Ireland-targeted 419 with a Spanish twist.
Manipulating search results for trending topics like "Breaking Dawn" and "Taylor Swift" is a nasty phenomenon that is getting nastier, producing fraudulent...
...I've been seeing quite a few scrawny, toothless piranha mailed from email addresses that are often spoofed but invariably dubious like google.phishing.team@a_latvian_mail_provider.com...
Internet scams are not new, and some of the strategies they use are not unique to the Internet, but there is no...