TECH SUPPORT:

“Your computer has an issue”

ATTACK VECTOR: Telephone, or pop-up warning from a suspicious website THE SCAM: “Microsoft Tech Support” has noticed some unusual activity and suspects your computer may have a virus. It offers to remedy the problem–sometimes by directing you to a website, asking your permission to remotely control your machine THE GOAL: Money, identity theft, malware insertion, botnet integration (claiming your computer as part of a matrix of remotely controlled computers, which in turn are used for illegal ends) THE TELL: You work on a Mac; you don't actually own a computer FEAR FACTOR: $$$–the pop-ups can be alarming