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Scareware ads keep running on Google’s transparency tool, even after they’re reported

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Scareware ads keep running on Google’s transparency tool, even after they’re reported 2026-09-02 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz A team of NYU and Radboud University researchers spent a year building a tool to find deceptive software ads inside Google’s public ad archive. It works. It also exposed something more uncomfortable: reporting a bad ad to […]

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Scareware Combined With Phishing in Attacks Targeting macOS Users

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Scareware Combined With Phishing in Attacks Targeting macOS Users 2025-03-19 at 14:11 By Ionut Arghire A long-running campaign phishing for credentials through scareware recently switched to targeting macOS users. The post Scareware Combined With Phishing in Attacks Targeting macOS Users appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Suspected head of Reveton, Ransom Cartel RaaS groups arrested

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Suspected head of Reveton, Ransom Cartel RaaS groups arrested 2024-08-13 at 17:16 By Help Net Security An international operation coordinated by the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) has resulted in the arrest and extradition of a man believed to be one of the world’s most prolific Russian-speaking cybercrime actors. The arrest The NCA has been […]

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