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Tech support scammers abuse native ad and content provider Taboola to serve malvertising

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:58:32 +0000

See how scammers redirected visitors from MSN to their tech support scam page in this latest malvertising campaign.

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Drive-by mining and ads: The Wild Wild West

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:16:27 +0000

Cryptomining in the browser is all the rage lately. But what are the impacts for users when it is being abused by dubious publishers?

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Don’t let these gaming threats give you a Game Over

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:24:29 +0000

With the first day of the UK’s biggest gaming event, EGX, opening its doors, we decided to roundup the most common gaming threats we see on a daily basis.

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Crowdsourced fraud and kickstarted scams

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:00:50 +0000

Crowdsourced funding opportunities via Kickstarter, Patreon, and GoFundMe have removed many structural roadblocks for people to access capital quickly and conveniently. But they’ve also lowered the barrier to entry for many very old scams. So how do you tell the difference between a great cause or project to contribute to and a digital confidence scam? Let us take a look at pitfalls on two crowdfunding platforms.

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Compromised LinkedIn accounts used to send phishing links via private message and InMail

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:24:39 +0000

A recent attack uses existing LinkedIn user accounts to send phishing links to their contacts via private message but also to external members via email.

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Fake DHS email – “Give us $350 in the next 24 hours”

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 15:00:14 +0000

Every now and then, we see the 419 “Hitman deployed to kill you” missive doing the rounds. This time, we have a fake DHS notification telling you to pay a $350 fee within 24 hours – or else.

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