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Black Friday is just around the corner and here’s how you can protect yourself from Black Friday Scams. All the shopaholics around the globe are gearing up for availing the best deal for their bucks. People wait for Black Friday the entire year because, on this day, all the retail outlets offer exclusive discount deals, […]
According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), it received nearly 11,000 tech support related complaints in the year 2017. Tech support scams have been around for a long time, and they can lead to massive losses on the part of the victim. The threat of these scams have increased massively, with Microsoft seeing 24% […]
Facebook’s team is currently working on a brand new tool aimed at reducing the incidences of harassment on the social network by identifying one of the sources This new feature will automatically alert the user if it detects that his or her account is being impersonated by some and if their profile picture and username […]
A Twitter bot @FFD8FFDB has been found posting cam images on the Internet and it’s creepy. A while ago we reported about a creepy website was showing live footage from 73,000 private security cameras. Now, a Twitter Bot with the aforementioned account name is posting uncanny images with random, incomprehensible pieces to text regularly. Only recently, the […]
Most of us have heard of ‘stranger danger’ and most of us have been educated as children or have educated children about the dangers of speaking to strangers – but how many actually make the effort to educate about the dangers of strangers online? Perhaps children being online while they are at home or at […]
We just got to know that a new phishing scam has started to make rounds on the popular social media network, Facebook. We expect it to spread rapidly on the Facebook and other social platforms because of its shocking headline. The phishing website looks identical to that of Facebook and features a link to some […]
Scammers have become amusingly very popular in this day and age — They are the reason why holiday makers won’t keep their antennas down lest they get fleeced of their hard-earned holiday savings. Scamming, especially in July and August has hit its high as this is the season for booming business in the airline industry […]
In the wake of cyber crimes, a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack is something to be on the look-out for. Lately, these attacks have seen phenomenal growth not only with regard to the increasing number of cases but also to new twists of development they are gaining. DDoS attacks, as the name suggests, bar […]
The latest spam campaign is equipped with the Dridex banking malware and targeting company accountants through deceptive emails. According to Heimdal Security, this spam email is an unauthentic scanned document, which actually is a macros-enabled.doc. The email attempts to pass as a genuine one under the subject title “Scanned from a Xerox Multifunction Printer.” The email also […]
Studies show women are more vulnerable to phishing scams than men and same has happened with Vivian Gabb who told media how she was sent a “phishing email” by scammers and was conned to give away her life savings. According to Get Safe Online, an internet safety advice, over 51% of UK citizens have been the […]
Facebook timelines nowadays are displaying a new phishing scam message with the title “Here’s the Link HeHe.” The text of this scam message varies in all its versions because if one message asks you to check out a “foolish movieclip,” then the other asks to check out a “silly woman,” whereas in some the users […]
Facebook’s astonishing “Video Scam” – ‘See What Happens to this Pregnant Lady’ inappropriately misusing “shock element” for users. A post appeared recently on Facebook, one in line of the many similar “claim-to-be-shocking-you posts” features a pregnant lady at the beach, promising to amaze viewers upon clicking the “Play” icon, warning it to be revealing and disturbing, what happens […]
An email is being received by users of Microsoft’s email accounts claiming to be sent from Windows Outlook. It has been titled C-93 Virus Alert and informs the user that a virus has been detected by Microsoft in your mailbox. Also present in that email is the method to eliminate this virus. It says that […]
A new malicious campaign has been identified by security researchers spreading fake news about the Ebola virus, in order to redirect users to phishing websites and delivering Malware. Symantec has reported three Malware operations and a phishing campaign using the Ebola virus as a social engineering theme. 1. The first phishing campaign shows that cybercriminals are […]