Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

Junk email campaigns touting employment or “money mule” scams cost $300 per million, and phishing emails could be blasted out through Severa’s botnet for the bargain price of $500 per million. One was Alan Ralsky , an American spammer who was convicted in 2009 of paying Severa and other spammers to promote pump-and-dump stock scams.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

When I first began writing about Vrublevsky in 2009 as a reporter for The Washington Post , ChronoPay and its sister firm Red & Partners (RNP) were earning millions setting up payment infrastructure for fake antivirus peddlers and spammers pimping male enhancement drugs.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 14, 2022

Instead of file-based malware, a lot of Mac users get attacked with adware and PUPs that are typically delivered through a number of web-based scams. You can’t rely on the built-in antivirus that’s in Mac OS to do the job,” Reed says. OK, that sounds annoying. That’s where DNS filtering comes in.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

IDIQ has been offering IdentityIQ services since 2009. Is IdentityIQ a Scam? Is IdentityIQ a scam? VPN and Antivirus IdentityIQ gives you access to Bitdefender® Total Security VPN and antivirus software to enhance your online security. The answer is simply no.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

AV-Comparatives quickly tested several known anti-malware and antivirus products against HermeticWiper and its variants and found that Malwarebytes, among others, detected the malware.). The risk of scams. The full thread on support can be found here. Check yourself before handing over any money.

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