Journey with us to Myanmar's shadowy scam factories, where trafficked workers are forced to run romance-baiting and fake tech support scams, and find out why a company's mandatory hold time for tech support could lead to innocent users having their computers compromised.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
Plus - don't miss our featured interview with Acronis CISO Gerald Beuchelt!
Category: technical support scam
It's not a new technique, but that doesn't mean that cybercriminals cannot make rich rewards from SEO poisoning.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Two firms have been fined $26 million by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for scaring consumers into believing their computers were infected by malware.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
If you have been optimistically daydreaming that losses attributed to cybercrime might have reduced in the last year, it's time to wake up.
The FBI's latest annual Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report has just been published, and makes for some grim reading.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Three Californian residents have been convicted of laundering millions of dollars tricked out of older adults who had fallen victim to government-imposter and tech support scams.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
The FBI warns that tech support scammers are increasingly telling their victims to send actual cash, concealed in newspaper or a magazine, rather than wiring funds.
But why?
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Multinational payment processing firm Nexway has been rapped across the knuckles by the US authorities, who claim that the firm knowingly processed fraudulent credit card payments on behalf of tech support scammers.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.