Reverse Social Engineering Tech Support Scammers

By Talos Group This post is authored by Jaime Filson and Dave Liebenberg . Background The amount of fraudulent actors masquerading as legitimate tech support has been on the rise since 2008. According to David Finn , executive director at the Microsoft Cybercrime Center, tech support scammers have made nearly $1.5 billion off of 3.3 million unwitting victims just this year. These scammers typically convince the victim into allowing them access to his/her computer through remote control applications such as TeamViewer. They then present benign processes as malicious, or at times even […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice