A friend of our family almost got scammed from a .top domain. They convinced her she needed 'tech support' and transferred $30,000 from her savings to checking and tried to get her to go to the bank to get more money. She got suspicious and got new bank accounts and thankfully didn't get any actual money stolen.
She's retired and it could have ruined her financially. I don't think she realizes how close she was to this.
The software they used bypassed windows defender because it was legitimate software called 'screen connect'. I was able to remove it pretty easily. It looked like a reverse-shell attached to a windows service (small .exe with no front-end).
Cyberfraud is infuriating when we know the victim, and depressing when you look how ripe the target space is, but the TLD is neither the most interesting thing about the crime nor what’s to blame, right?
There’s a lot of trust in a namespace system that doesn’t deserve it, although odds are you personally can use it to be immune to scams. What do we do for everyone else?
She's retired and it could have ruined her financially. I don't think she realizes how close she was to this.
The software they used bypassed windows defender because it was legitimate software called 'screen connect'. I was able to remove it pretty easily. It looked like a reverse-shell attached to a windows service (small .exe with no front-end).