{"id":593,"date":"2022-11-03T14:30:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/?p=593"},"modified":"2022-11-03T14:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:34:27","slug":"defender-security-warning-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Defender security warning&#8221; SCAM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221103_100003647_HDR-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221103_100003647_HDR-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221103_100003647_HDR-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221103_100003647_HDR-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221103_100003647_HDR.jpg 1374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Windows Defender security warning is a type of scareware or a phishing scam<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>It redirects you to a page that looks like the official Microsoft website, even though its URL suggests otherwise. The page will display a message that your computer has been infected with malware (Trojan, for example) and that you need to contact a customer support agent by phone so that they could fix the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are seeing the Windows Defender security warning scam in the wild once again.  It is easy to fall for this scam if you are not paying attention.  Here are some of the possible reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<ul>\n<li>You visited a compromised website that redirected you to the scam page<\/li>\n<li>You clicked an ad that redirected you to the fake website<\/li>\n<li>You have malicious adware installed on your device<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the basic measures to protect your device :<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t click on random links without knowing where they will lead you to<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t download suspicious applications<\/li>\n<li>Keep your OS and all the software updated<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t open suspicious emails or their attachments<\/li>\n<li>Use an adblocker to block malicious ads<\/li>\n<li>Use an anti-malware program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Defender security warning is a type of scareware or a phishing scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,62,40],"tags":[63,53,49],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browser","category-scams","category-threats","tag-phishing","tag-scams","tag-threats"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XT9c-9z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}