Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

Severa ran several affiliate programs that paid cybercriminals to trick people into installing fake antivirus software. In 2011, KrebsOnSecurity dissected “SevAntivir” — Severa’s eponymous fake antivirus affiliate program — showing it was used to deploy new copies of the Kelihos spam botnet.

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Antivirus Cybercrime Identity Theft Scams 281

Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

indictment in December that accused two Chinese nationals of identity theft and fraud. Even is HPE has been hacked multiple times since 2010, most of the hack occurred between 2015 and 2017. .” reads a report published by the Reuters agency. “The hacking campaign, known as “ Cloud Hopper ,” was the subject of a U.S.

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Identity Theft Hacking System Administration Advertising 91

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

This includes antivirus, identity protection, SIEM (where Gartner names it a Leader), endpoint protection (graded a Visionary by Gartner) and secure web gateways (Gartner Challenger). Founded: 2010. McAfee has been a major player in security for a long time. Learn more about McAfee. Headquarters: Clearwater, Florida.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. Phishing emails were a prevalent mode of attack, and they have been in circulation since at least the mid-1990s. At the beginning of 2020, U.S.

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IoT Artificial Intelligence Technology Scams 130