Android Users – Confirm You Don’t Have Malicious Apps on Your Device

Google recently removed a slew of malicious apps from their app store, Google Play. These apps, which have been downloaded 10 million+ times, present themselves as image editing tools, virtual keyboards, wallpaper changers, and more. They function as trojans which fulfill their stated functions, but also have malicious hidden functions, which in this case appear […]

Student Loan Debt Relief Scams

With the Federal Student Loan Program reprieve set to expire on August 31st, the Tech Transparency Project, which is a research arm of the Non-Profit Campaign for Accountability, reviewed top Google searches related to student debt, including “student loan forgiveness” and ”cancel student debt” and found that 29 out of 242, or 12 % of […]

Amazon Prime Day 2022

  Beware of scams related to Amazon Prime Days, which fall on July 12th and 13th this year. Cybercriminals will be using a variety of social engineering tactics to exploit shoppers. You may receive spoofed phishing messages, SMS text messages, and phone calls during/around this time. Scammers are seeking Amazon customer login credentials to make […]