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If your iPhone gets a virus, you’ll certainly want to know as soon as possible. Luckily, we spoke to a couple of experts about why you’re getting iPhone virus warnings on your phone—and how ...
The FBI recommends that you be "especially wary" if a company asks you to update your password or account information, advising that you look up the company's phone number on your own and call ...
The FBI and a leading federal cybersecurity agency are warning Android and iPhone users to stop sending unencrypted texts to users of the other operating system after the Salt Typhoon hack of ...
The FBI MoneyPak Ransomware, also known as Reveton Ransomware, is a ransomware that starts by purporting to be from a national police agency (like the American Federal Bureau of Investigation) and that they have locked the computer or smartphone due to "illegal activities" and demands a ransom payment via GreenDot MoneyPak cards in order to release the device.
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
On March 28, 2021, the Federal Communications Commission issued a statement warning Americans of the rising number of phone scams regarding fraudulent COVID-19 products. [34] Voice phishing schemes attempting to sell products which putatively "prevent, treat, mitigate, diagnose or cure" COVID-19 have been monitored by the Food and Drug ...
A number of countermeasures to the StingRay and other devices have been developed, for example crypto phones such as GSMK's Cryptophone have firewalls that can identify and thwart the StingRay's actions or alert the user to IMSI capture. [74] The EFF developed a system to catch Stingrays.
Telecommunications companies tend to temporarily store call and SMS records — which phone number called or texted which, and when — and they briefly store the contents of SMS texts. Audio ...