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Google fights spammy extensions with new Chrome Web Store policy

The policies are specifically meant to fight spam, but they outlaw tactics taken by malicious extensions as well, including fake reviews.

Scammers have turned to employment worries as their latest lure for Zoom phishing scams.

It’s like a cloud of personal information breathed out in a plume by a database that didn’t bother to wear a mask.

SophosLabs worked through five months’ worth of “porn scam” emails and followed the money. Learn what they found…

First, 267m records were exposed & sold for 0.0002 cents each on the Dark Web. It was taken down but got reposted with yet more records.

Here’s something officially useful you can do with all those phishing scams – and the cost to you is approximately zero!

GitHub users beware: online criminals have launched a phishing campaign to try and gain access to your accounts.

They were posing as crypto wallets in order to rip off users’ private keys and mnemonic phrases and drain real wallets. Google’s yanked them.

It doesn’t have regulatory authority, so it can’t do much, but the hundreds of registrars it authorizes can and should.

If somebody promises to get your economic impact payment fast, back away: it’s just one flavor of COVID-19 scam the tax agency is seeing.