news.bbc.co.uk - 10/19/2009
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Online criminals are making millions of pounds by convincing computer users to download fake anti-virus software, internet security experts claim. Symantec says more than 40 million people have fallen victim to the "scareware" scam in the past 12 months. The download is usually harmful and ...
information-security-resources.com - 10/27/2009
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information-security-resources.com —
There is still a lot of scareware out
there, and many people still falling for it. Forty-three...
million in the last year according to Symantec. Put simply, scareware programs are designed to frighten people into running malicious software by popping up when the user is online and declaring that ...
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ScareWare Infects Tens of Millions Yearly
blogit.realwire.com - 10/19/2009
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blogit.realwire.com —
The Story Fat cat cybercriminals are pocketing huge
profits through a comparatively low-risk, fast-growing crime peddling bogus...
security software or so called ‘Scareware’ to unsuspecting internet users. This is according to a new report from Symantec on Rogue Security Software.
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Enormous payouts for 3rd generation cybercriminals ...
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... at Matanuska-Susitna College and her employment history from 2004 to 2006. [From: The Daily Beast]
Scareware, schemes that dupe unsuspecting targets by offering fake anti-virus protection, has scammed over 40 million people during the last year. Coupled with recent reports that 59-percent of the world's computers are infected with malware, the U.S. government's pleas to the public to improve "cyber hygiene" grow even more important. [From: The BBC]
The European Union (EU) has created a free online library in order to ...
Scareware on the rise
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... him into it. That's the lesson learned from the latest round of malware attacks: So-called "scareware" which tricks an infected user into thinking he has a virus or some other infestation on his computer, then extorts money from the user in exchange for "fixing" the issue. Scareware is nothing new -- readers regular send me questions about it, all convinced they have some kind of infection that can't be remedied unless they send $30 to a Bulgarian company -- but its virulence is now becoming severe . Symantec says that 43 million people have been hit by scareware scams in the ...
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