Argos, the well-liked UK retailer, warned its customers about a fake Facebook page that scammers use to yield Facebook “Likes.” As per Hoax Slayer, the bogus Argos page directs users to “Like” and share the scam, promising them HD TVs. Of course, promised prizes remains as a...
Fake antivirus programs, or FakeAVs, have been aiming PC’s for quite some time now. On the other hand, experts claims that cybercriminals have initiated mounting such threats for Android devices as well. Symantec has spotted a threat dubbed Android.Fakedefender. Once installed, the FakeAV claims victims that...
“ System Doctor 2014 ″ is a malware, which appears to be a valid antivirus application and claims that your PC is infected with malwares and forces you to buy the software to clear these non-existing threats. “System Doctor 2014″ is spread through hacked or impure...
[caption id="attachment_484" align="aligncenter" width="585"] Rogue Google Phishing Mail[/caption] Google might have a lot of money, but it’s unlikely that it’ll start handing out large amounts of it to random users just because the company is celebrating an anniversary. Hoax Slayer has come across bogus emails that purport...
The outage suffered by LinkedIn on Wednesday was caused by an issue with DNS servers. Cybercriminals were not directly accountable for the LinkedIn downtime, but they indirectly played a part. Security researchers from Cisco have been monitoring the events and they found that a number of...
[caption id="attachment_472" align="aligncenter" width="585"] Chrome clickhijack vulnerability fixed.[/caption] Google has addressed the issue with the release of the latest stable channel update for Chrome. Chrome 27.0.1453.116 for Windows, Macintosh and Chrome Frame platforms addresses the security hole that could have been leveraged by hackers to trick users...
