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Office Depot

Office Depot and Support.com to Pay $35M for Fake Malware Scan ‘Scam’

| | Fake anti-virus, fake AV, FTC, Industry News, legal, Malware, OfficeMax, SB Blogwatch, Support.com
Feds win technical victory against an alleged campaign to fool customers. The FTC claims Office Depot and Support.com deliberately lied to consumers, saying their PCs were infected with malware. However, the scanning tool ...
Security Boulevard
Fake Malware Pop-up Example

Fake Malware Pop-up Example

| | fake AV, pop-up, virus alert, VirusTotal
I don't believe I've ever done a video blog, but I wanted to show you what it looks like when we look at a fake malware pop-up. While I was prepping a ...
CyberCrime & Doing Time

Apple and Android news

| | android, Apple, fake AV, ios, iPhone, signal, spyware
Android, iOS, phishing, privacy, macOS, Signal app ...
Mac Virus
CyberByte steals Malwarebytes’ intellectual property

CyberByte steals Malwarebytes’ intellectual property

| | CyberByte, fake AV, Mac, Malwarebytes for Mac, Malwarebytes news, potentially unwanted programs, PUPs, security bloggers network
CyberByte has stolen Malwarebytes' intellectual property, and has been using our data without permission in their CyberByte Antivirus software. Categories: Malwarebytes news Tags: CyberBytefake avmacMalwarebytes for Macpotentially unwanted programsPUPs (Read more...) The ...
Malwarebytes Labs
phishing cybersecurity

Fancy Bear Cyberspies Hide Phishing Pages Behind Blogspot Links

| | APT28, banking trojan, black hat SEO, blogspot, cyberespionage, DNC hack, fake AV, Fancy Bear, Hacking, Pawn Storm, Phishing, scareware, search engine optimization, Sofacy, zeus
Security researchers have identified a new phishing campaign launched by Russian cyberespionage group Fancy Bear that uses rogue blogspot.com URLs to bypass spam filters. These latest attacks were aimed at Bellingcat, a ...