Windows Push Notifications Used for Fraud
GovInfoSecurity @prajeetspeaks) • May 24, 2021 Fake update notifications download malware. (Source: McAfee) Scammers are increasingly using Windows Push Notifications to impersonate legitimate alerts as a first step toward installing malicious Windows applications to harvest user and system information, according to a global report by McAfee. "Browser push notifications can highly resemble Windows system notifications," the report states. "Scammers are abusing push notifications to trick users into taking actio...