In my previous blog “Fake apps and the lure of alternative sources,” I discussed a fraudulent scheme that takes advantage of known, legitimate and free applications. Unlike rogues and ransomware which use threats and force to influence their victims, the social engineering techniques employed by a fake installer are less aggressive yet, interestingly, more deceptive. […]
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Fake Google Chrome Updates Return
“Oh hey, a new Chrome update! I’d better hurry up and download the file from this random website with no apparent connection to anything remotely related to my web browser”. There are things better left unsaid, and the above is probably floating around near the top somewhere. A scam from a few months ago – […]
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