Security News

Elderly victims conned out of millions by tech support scammer
2018-06-21 13:17

The FTC has been battling tech support scams for years, especially ones targeting older citizens who are seen by fraudsters everywhere as susceptible to these cons.

Microsoft: Tech support scams rose by 24% in 2017, costing some victims thousands of dollars
2018-04-23 16:43

Social engineering scams make even the best security solutions useless, Microsoft said. It wants industry-wide collaboration to solve the problem.

Tech Support Scammers Fined in U.S., Jailed in UK
2018-01-30 16:31

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Monday that operators of a nationwide computer repair scam have been banned from the tech support business as...

New scam launches users’ default phone app, points it to fake tech support hotline
2017-11-21 14:00

The latest variants of tech support scams targeting Apple users have done away with the usual visually prominent error messages. Instead, they open the potential victims’ default communication or...

Tech Support Scammers Cast a Wider Net (Threatpost)
2017-08-07 17:32

Microsoft is warning of a wave of phishing campaigns pushing tech support scams via malicious links to phony Amazon, Alibaba and LinkedIn web pages.

Major international crackdown on tech support scams (Help Net Security)
2017-05-15 18:06

The FTC, along with federal, state and international law enforcement partners, announced Operation Tech Trap, a nationwide and international crackdown on tech support scams that trick consumers...