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As you probably know by now, scams and viruses are constantly making the rounds on Facebook.
The latest threat is spreading like wildfire with the help of the ubiquitous Facebook Messenger app that runs on millions of smart phones and tablets.
Commonly known as “Locky Ransomeware”, this threat is especially bad because there’s no known decryption program available for unlocking a device once it has been encrypted. [Read more…]
Copyfish is a very popular Optical Character Recognition (OCR) browser extension that extracts text from images and videos so you can insert it into a regular text file.
OCR technology has been around for decades, but Copyfish and other extensions now make it easy to extract text right from within your web browser.
Unfortunately, one of the employees at A9T9 (the company behind the Copyfish extension) fell for a phishing attempt and effectively handed control of the Copyfish Chrome extension to a hacker. [Read more…]
If you’ve been keeping up with the news today you know that a new strain of ransomware is spreading across the globe as we speak.
Individuals and companies in virtually every country have already been crippled by the attack, and even some utilities have been shut down.
So far several countries in Europe have suffered the brunt of the attack, but the wave is spreading fast and headed for other parts of the world, including the United States. [Read more…]
Did you dine at a Chipotle Mexican Grill any time between the dates of March 24 and April 18, 2017?
If so, you should know that your credit/debit card info might have been stolen by hackers.
Company officials reported earlier today that hackers installed malware on their payment systems that allowed them to steal customers’ credit/debit card data. [Read more…]
Scammers rarely miss an opportunity to take advantage of an innocent victim, and right now they’re using the recent WannaCry Ransomware attacks as a ruse to scam as many folks as possible.
To be sure, WannaCry is a very serious malware issue, but it’s important not to fall victim to the scams that are out there taking advantage of it right now.
The most common WannaCry related scam works something like this: [Read more…]