WhatsApp and Facebook ticket giveaways: viral fraud
WhatsApp and Facebook are swimming in links to ticket giveaways for fairs and airlines. Don’t get excited, though; the tickets are fake.
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WhatsApp and Facebook are swimming in links to ticket giveaways for fairs and airlines. Don’t get excited, though; the tickets are fake.
They say they have video of you watching porn, threaten to send it to your friends, and demand ransom in bitcoins? Don’t pay! We explain how this scam works.
Facebook wants to be your financial service and wants your banking data. But do you want Facebook to have it?
How to protect the financial accounts of your clients without scaring them away.
Here’s how scammers try to phish for verification codes — and what may happen if you send them one.
Most computer infections come from visiting porn sites, or so some people say. Are they right?
In this podcast, Jeff and Dave discuss the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica debacle, hackers making bomb threats, and more.
Jeff sits down with Thiago Marques and Santiago Pontiroli to discuss their talk at #TheSAS2018 on Prilex and the carding scene in Brazil.
Cybercriminals weaponize hidden mining. We tell you how it works and how to protect your company
While you’re watching YouTube, someone might just be using your device to mine cryptocurrency.
The cryptomining boom is helping scammers make money out of thin air. The latest method involves fake currency and ransomware.
Sex sells, as they say in advertising. In cyberspace porn serves as one of the most popular tools for malicious activity.
Hacked programs freely distributed online are found to be equipped with a hidden NiceHash cryptocurrency miner.
Attackers pretending to be acquaintances asking for money — the story is old, the approaches new. We show you how to avoid the e-bait.
Kaspersky Lab looks ahead to the main threats likely to affect the financial industry in 2018.
A few years ago, a criminal gang in India was making easy money off tech-illiterate people in Europe, Australia, and Great Britain. They did quite well until they encountered Kaspersky
You scroll through profiles on a dating site and you see a nice girl who you might like to date. You can send her a message — and she’ll answer
Hello there! Usually, I write about topics concerning technical support or problem-solving, but not this time – though it will be relevant to the cybersecurity world. Today’s post concerns phone fraud.
WhatsApp has finally released a Web version of its popular mobile messaging service. We take a look at it from the security perspective.
Whether you’re buying or selling a secondhand Apple device, you can be fooled by criminals. We have gathered tips on how to minimize your chances of being taken by such frauds.
One morning when I was in a hurry to get to work, everything went wrong in an instant: an SMS message alerted me to an $80 charge to my credit card for a purchase that I never made.