Scareware scam: Restoro and Reimage fined $26 million by FTC – Source: www.bitdefender.com

Source: www.bitdefender.com – Author: Graham Cluley 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. The FTC claimed that Restoro Cyprus Limited and Reimage...

$12.5 billion lost to cybercrime, amid tidal wave of crypto investment fraud – Source: www.tripwire.com

Source: www.tripwire.com – Author: Graham Cluley 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...

Three men found guilty of laundering $2.5 million in Target gift card tech support scam – Source: www.bitdefender.com

Source: www.bitdefender.com – Author: Graham Cluley 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. As the US Department of Justice...