Victims of the tech support website scam could have their Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and other data harvested or they could be with malware. Also, the following are the steps that result in being redirected to a bogus tech support page: The user clicks on a story or advertisement, the Edge browser setting is analysed for various metrics.”īased on the aforementioned metrics and prior results, the advisory said “if the user is adjudged to be a bot or in a location that is not of interest, the user is redirected to a harmless dummy page that is relevant to the story or advertisement initially clicked on However, if the user is adjudged a potential victim, then the user is redirected to a tech support scam website for further exploitation.” According to the advisory, “The Microsoft Edge News Feed is the default page that appears when a new tab is opened, and it displays information such as news, advertisements, weather, and traffic updates.
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