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As you probably know by now, scammers just love targeting folks on Facebook. After all, where else can they easily target well over a billion users worldwide, for free?
The latest Facebook scam to make the rounds is just a variation of the timeless “Like, Share & Win” scams that have been around almost as long as Facebook itself.
It’s called the “Win A Free Car” scam, and while there are several varieties of the scam currently running, they all work something like this… [Read more…]
By now you’re probably aware of the new Pokémon GO game app that’s taking the world by storm.
Well, as usual the scammers are already crawling out of the virtual woodwork to take advantage of it.
Right now there’s an insidious Pokémon GO scam making the rounds, and it’s deceptively tempting to say the least. It works something like this… [Read more…]
Regular readers of this blog already know that I don’t recommend the use of password managers, for several reasons.
Well, a recently discovered security flaw in the popular KeePass password manager adds yet another reason to that list.
While the flaw in question doesn’t put the security of your passwords at risk directly, it does so indirectly by making it possible to accidentally download a malicious fake version of KeePass via the program’s normal update procedure. [Read more…]
Another day, another Facebook scam. This one features a fake Marlboro coupon that’s supposedly good for two free cartons of Marlboro brand cigarettes.
The coupon looks real enough, but if you click on it you won’t be directed to the official Marlboro website.
Instead, you’ll end up on a fake website that could infect your computer with malware and/or trick you into giving a hacker your personal and financial information.
Here is a screenshot of the fake Marlboro coupon: [Read more…]
Scammers have been using ransomware to extort money from Windows users for a good while now, but over the past weekend a bunch of unlucky victims were hit with the first ransomware attacks to ever successfully target Apple Macs.
Ransomware works by encrypting the data on a computer’s hard drive, then informing the user that he’ll have to pay a ransom to the hacker in exchange for the decryption code.
In this case the scammers managed to infect version 2.90 of the popular “Transmission” app with the insidious KeRanger ransomware virus. The infected app was released on Friday, and users who downloaded it immediately infected their Macs with KeRanger. [Read more…]