September 11, 2015

It’s 2015 and miscreants are still trying to dupe you with fake BSoDs

Victims are lured to scam pages via either spam messages or malicious advert redirects, according to Malwarebytes, the security software firm that spotted the BSoD scam page. Surfers with Javascript enabled will get nagged with a pop-up message featuring an even more dire warning until they kill the browser instance, something that might be tricky without resorting to the “CTRL+ALT+ DELETE” kill option.

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