Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Here are 50 ways to avoid getting scammed on Black Friday — and beyond. Popular browsers, like Safari or Firefox, frequently issue updates to protect against scams. Leverage antivirus software. Protect yourself from malware by purchasing, updating, and upgrading antivirus software. Report scams.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Way back in 1990, Symantec acquired Norton Utilities and made Norton the heart of its antivirus subscription offering. billion in 2016, for instance. Related: The coming of ubiquitous passwordless access.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams. In 2016, while the U.S. Even though U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

This quirk made the attack look more trustworthy and added a layer of flexibility to these scams. The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016. CrySiS, also known as Dharma, has been around since 2016 and continues to be active at the time of this publication. About the essayist.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The extraordinarily high volume of threats is forcing vendors to include AI-based detection even in consumer antivirus products. GOIL alerted their customers to these sorts of scams in an August 2022 Facebook post. Want to Learn More About How Scammers Are Getting Ahold of Your Data? Check Out The Scammers’ Playbook.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Email Hack Scams Dubai-based Exhibition Firms Client Roster Cheers Exhibition, a Dubai-based firm, was targeted in an elaborate phishing attack that took control of its email services and phished its client roster. The email directs victims to download antivirus software.

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