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The tag 'victims' on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about individuals affected by cybercrime, scams, and malware. Topics include remote assistance programs used by scammers to gain unauthorized access to victims' computers, ransomware like Cryptolocker that encrypts files and demands payment, and spyware installed by technicians to photograph victims. The tag also extends to real-world crime victims, such as those in plane crashes or assaults, but the primary focus is on computer-related victimization, including fraud and malware attacks. Users seek advice on detecting malicious software and protecting themselves from becoming victims of cybercriminals.
Hi All,
Since remote assistance/control programs are not malware, but are used by scammers at times to set up unattended access to victims' computers, does anyone know of a scanner that will look for remote assistance programs? (They don't always show up in Programs and Features).
Many...
Security vendors FireEye and Fox IT have launched a Web tool which allows victims of Cryptolocker Malware attacks to decrypt files without paying ransom to cybercriminals. Cryptolocker is Windows-based ransomware which relies on disguise to infect systems and encrypt files, demanding a payment...
This thread is partly born from a new experience of mine, described lightly later, a fraud, now investigated by Police by four countries, plus Interpol.
But it's mainly inspired by numerous inserts by mainly young people in various sites, who for some reason suspect their own sanity. The...
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There's an app for that.
While not at all humorous in anyway it does show how technology (even personal tech) can and is being used to help locate unfortunate victims of catastrophic disasters.
SOURCE: Find My iPhone helps find wreckage of Chilean plane crash | 9to5Mac | Apple Intelligence
TUNOSHNA, Russia (AP) -- A Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team crashed into a river bank while taking off Wednesday, killing at least 43 people and leaving two others critically injured, officials said. It was one of the worst crashes ever involving a sports team.
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A man accused of chasing two people with a screwdriver at a Link Removed bus stop is behind bars today, facing several felony charges.
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Allentown police received a report of a man exposing himself on Sept. 11 at the Kmart at 1502 S. Fourth St. Police spoke to a security guard who said a man was following a girl throughout the store and exposed himself in front of her and might have touched her.
They should have gave him 44...
IDG News Service - He was hired to fix their computers, but police say that Trevor Harwell instead installed spyware software that took candid photos of his clients in various states of undress.
Harwell had been a Macintosh specialist with a Los Angeles-area home computer repair company...
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JOPLIN, Mo. – Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that killed at least 116 people when it blasted much of this Missouri town off the map and slammed straight into its hospital.
It was the nation's...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn (C), head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), departs a New York Police Department precinct in New York late May 15, 2011. Link Removed due to 404 Error
NEW YORK – Haggard and unshaven after a weekend in jail, the chief of the International Monetary Fund was...
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A Swiss man who had agreed to be killed and eaten by a Slovak cannibal reported the plan to the police and helped them catch his would-be murderer.
According to Swiss and Slovak reports, the unidentified Swiss man agreed to the bizarre attempted murder after he met his Slovak would-be...
man who had his penis chopped off by his best friend Lyubomir while he was demonstrating his martial arts skills, is to help him get a new job - so he can pay for a new manhood.
The painful incident happened at 61-year-old Mr Lozanov's flat just outside the city of Plovdiv, where the two...
A 26-year-old Chicago woman, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly smashing a glass into another woman's face at a bar fight in the Gold Coast.
She apparently didn't make it too hard for detectives to crack the case, bragging about the attack on Facebook the next day.
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Authorities on Massachusetts' South Shore are investigating an apparent bizarre murder-suicide with a power saw that left a husband and wife dead.
The alleged crime was revealed at approximately 10 p.m. on Monday, when police officers in the historic town of Plymouth, located about 40 miles...
A real-life ‘evil hypnotist’ is being hunted down after sending at least eight elderly bank customers into trances and stealing their money.
The crafty crook has been collecting cash from unaware victims in the south-western Russian city of Stavropol.
It is thought that he has...
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A pair of pandas that arrived from China a few weeks ago made their first public appearance at a zoo in Tokyo on Friday, providing a little light relief for victims of the tsunami that hit the country in March.
About 300 people who were forced from their...
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's baseball players' union has hit out at the decision of the Central League to start its season on schedule on March 25 while the country continues to battle the aftermath of last week's earthquake.
Thousands died when a 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit Japan last Friday...
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Plans to erect a sculpture in a London park using girders salvaged from New York's World Trade Center, which was destroyed in attacks on September 11, 2001, have been put on hold after victims' families complained.
The memorial, designed by Japanese-Russian...
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Note to thieves: when robbing a place, the best way to make a clean getaway is not to post your picture on the victim's Facebook page. And if you do, scram out of town/country as fast as you can! Otherwise, you'll be like Rodney Knight Jr., who couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a pic of...
Pawel Adamczyk got himself into a spot of bother during a recent raid in Poland when, unable to escape with his stash of stolen goods, he had to ask his victim to let him out of the house.
Adamczyk, 27, was drunk as tried to steal from a house in Poland in a crime that went not quite to plan...