Online theft is nothing new – but 2021 saw cybercrime go to a whole new level. As we all spent more time at home (and therefore more time online), Avast tracked increases in everything from ransomware to cryptocurrency scams to phishing.&nb…
Anonymity service Tor has been blocked by the Russian government and impersonated by an unknown bad actor. Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media, known as Roskomnadzor, blocked th…
As 2021 draws to an end, we’d like to examine what the digital landscape of 2022 has in store. In the new year, our team foresees cybercriminals making advancements to ensure the effectiveness of ransomware, a continuation of cryptocurrency…
As we are in the 2021 holiday shopping season, there’s a new scam you need to be aware of and watch out for: offers for Amazon Tokens. We have found that these new scams are very effective, yielding over USD $100,000. Over 300 Avast users h…
There’s been a lot of talk over the weekend about a new vulnerability called “Log4j” and how it affects major cloud services like Steam, Apple iCloud, and apps like Minecraft. It’s serious enough that the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure…
As a 20-year-old college student, I was always looking to make fast cash. During my junior year of college, the holiday season was upon us and my part-time job was barely covering the fee to fill up my gas tank. As I looked through my schoo…
A crypto support bot scam discovered in May has now increased and widened its breadth of targeted cryptocurrency users. The way it works is that scammers monitor every tweet on Twitter for specific keywords, such as the crypto platform name…
If I were to ask you where your online identity exists, you might struggle to list all of the places your personal information is stored. For most of us, the number is over 150 accounts and passwords per person, with everything from contact…
It was announced recently that MI6, the UK’s secret intelligence service that you are familiar with if you’ve ever seen a James Bond movie, would begin partnering with technology companies to speed up their innovation and keep pace with Rus…
Iris? recently published their 5th Annual Holiday Identity Theft Survey results. Unfortunately, shoppers in 2021 are still under stress from the same kind of scammers and fraudsters as they were in 2020.