🚨 Cyber Help Week is Here 🚨

Firmy

As part of Scam Awareness Month, we’re starting Cyber Help Week in the F-Secure Community. This week, we’ll focus on how to protect yourself from scams and improve your online security. All content will be posted in this thread, so check back daily for updates.

What’s Coming Up:

• Oct 8: Key articles on how to spot scams and secure your personal information.
• Oct 9: Videos covering common scams and tips on how to recognize them.

How You Can Join:

• Ask questions or share your experiences in the comments.
• Engage with the articles and videos—we want to hear your thoughts.
• Use #ScamAwarenessMonth and #ScamProtection on social media when you share insights or tips.

Let’s work together to make the internet a safer place. Stay tuned, and join the conversation right here in this thread.

Firmy

Cyber Help Week – Day 1 Update (Oct 8)

Welcome to Day 1 of Cyber Help Week, part of our ongoing Scam Awareness Month celebration in the F-Secure Community. Today, we’re spotlighting some fantastic resources to help you stay scam-savvy and protect your digital life. Get ready to dive into essential content that’ll empower you to navigate the online world more safely.

Today's Focus: Top Articles to Boost Your Scam Protection

From phishing scams to malware threats, we've got all the bases covered with today’s featured articles:

• 🛑 A website redirects me to a suspicious website. What should I do?
• 📧 How to stop receiving spam/scam emails.
• 💻 Removing adware search engines on macOS.
• 📞 Phone scams: What to do if you think you’re targeted.
• 🔔 Unwanted Chrome notification pop-ups? Here’s what to do.
• 💼 Received a blackmail email asking for Bitcoin?
• 🦠 How to remove malware after an antivirus warning.

BONUS: Explore the Latest Threats and Scams

We've also rounded up some fresh content to keep you informed about the latest online threats:

• 💻 Discover the Top Types of Malware for 2023
• 🎮 Malicious Mods: The Sims 4 Infostealer Threatens Gamers’ Security
• 🛒 4 Sneaky Online Shopping Scams to Watch Out For
• 💸 Students Targeted in New Money Mule Scams – Are You at Risk?
• 🤖 Unmasking Double Jeopardy: A Telegram Bot Spreading Malware and Scam Subscriptions
• 🛍️ 10 Must-Know Tips for Safe Online Shopping

Check Out Our Scam Intelligence and Impacts Report

To deepen your understanding of the current scam landscape, don’t miss our Scam Intelligence and Impacts Report. This report provides valuable insights into scam trends and their effects, helping you stay one step ahead of scammers.

How You Can Get Involved:

• Ask Questions! Got a scam-related story or questions? We’d love to hear from you—drop them in the comments.
• Share Your Thoughts! Dive into the articles and share your thoughts—your experiences could help others.
• Spread the Word! Use #ScamAwarenessMonth and #ScamProtection on social media to share these insights with your friends and family.

Stay tuned for Day 2, where we’ll share engaging videos to help you recognize common scams. Let’s make the internet a safer place together 💬🔐

Firmy

Cyber Help Week – Day 2 Update (Oct 9) 🎥✨

Ready for more scam-busting tips? As part of Cyber Help Week, we’ve rounded up some must-watch videos to help you stay one step ahead of scammers. Whether it's phishing, fake links, or social media tricks, we've got you covered 🕵️‍♂️🔐

Check out these awesome videos and reels to sharpen your scam-spotting skills:

YouTube Videos & Shorts

• 🎯 How to Spot Job Scams
• 🧐 How to stay safe and avoid online scams.
• 👁️ How to stay safe on social media and what to look out for on dating platforms.
• 🔐 Keep your accounts, in-game cosmetics and currencies safe from cybercriminals
• 🌐 What if you lose your phone, do you have backups taken of your photos and videos?

Instagram Videos

• 🛡️ Romance Scams and the importance of identity theft for continuous monitoring.
• 🖥️ Do you like shopping online?
• 🎭 Do you know how much your Instagram account is worth to cyber criminals?
• 🛍️ How AI tools are used by cyber criminals?

How You Can Get Involved:

• 🎤 Ask Questions! Got a scam-related story? Or a burning question about staying safe online? Drop them in the comments—let’s hear it.
• 💬 Share Your Thoughts! What do you think of the videos? Your experiences might just save someone else from a scam.
• 📢 Spread the Word! Use #ScamAwarenessMonth and #ScamProtection on social media—your friends and family will thank you for the heads-up.

Let's team up to outsmart scammers and keep our digital world safe 💪🌐

Stay safe, stay smart, and let’s keep the conversation going 🚀

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Thank you for these valuable information 🫶

Ukko

Hello,

I think that not much attention is paid to scams (in different formats) on mobile platforms during cyber help week. Referring directly to the operating system infrastructure.

Android and Google Play Market; and iOS in general. For example, when there was a Windows Phone 8 (8.1, 10) platform - AV as such was not required and everything was considered relatively reliable, but looking at the app store - I constantly encountered very strange applications, dubious apps and simply not quite with clear intentions. I tried to find out from F-Secure Labs about this at the time.

I couldn't find the answers now, but the general advice was to just be vigilant, I think. But, let's say, it wasn't entirely clear to me how to distinguish (and in general what an application with those permissions can do to my device to harm) a safe application from a scam application, if it is not something known. And then, later, there were "attempts to be similar" to known applications and the like. Many of them were removed from the app store, but not always very quickly.

I think it's the same with Android and iOS - just on a different scale and less noticeable (if still not fixed). Mentioned article "Discover the Top Types of Malware for 2023" with two malware description (of four) for Android. But I have not come across (by studying mentioned resources, articles, videos, KBs and so from this topic) any example-types or a general picture of scam applications on mobile operating systems. What are they, how to distinguish them, and so on. And if they are easy to identify - why do they still remain available to users (and do not disappear already at the early stages of moderation).

Thanks!