In a tale with enough twists to satisfy even a Sherlock Holmes fan, Malwarebytes discovered a tech support scam run by a member of Symantec’s partner program that not only sells its victims unnecessary tech support services, but also legitimate Norton products. Jerome Segura, a senior security researcher for Malwarebytes, notified Symantec earlier this month that one of the security company’s certified resellers, Silurian Tech Support, was also running a scam using a fake Norton Anti Virus pop-up warning as bait to lure its victims.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine
