A closer look at a tech support screen locker
In this blog post, we are going to take a closer look at some of the code that the most predominant family of tech support screen lockers are currently using to frustrate their victims. This, which is dubbed VinCE because of the Program folder it creates for itself, is compiled in Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL),…
Tech support scammers abuse bug in HTML5 to freeze computers
One of the primary vectors for the distribution of tech support scams is malvertising. You’ll simply be browsing the web when all of a sudden your browser shows a scary page claiming your computer is infected. Behind the scenes, an unscrupulous ad network usually lets a malicious actor push a malicious code snippet instead of…
Millennials A Growing Target Of IT Support Scams
New Microsoft-NCSA study finds that two out of three customers have been exposed to tech support scams in the last 12 months. More millennials are falling victim to tech support scams, surpassing senior citizens as the group most frequently tricked by fraudsters. This finding comes from a new study released by Microsoft and the National…