Neowin News Feed for: Fake

Beware! This "Windows 11 24H2" update download can quietly steal your sensitive data

Sayan Sen — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:26:01 +0000

This Windows 11 24H2 update download could quietly compromise your system and steal sensitive personal data, putting your system's privacy and security at serious risk. Read more...

Intel again accused of faking true CPU performance and it's not AMD doing the blaming

Sayan Sen — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:18:01 +0000

Intel has been caught in the past trying to make its CPU appear faster or trying to make rival CPUs appear slower. That accusation is back again on Team Blue and AMD is not the one accusing. Read more...

Deepfake pre-election robocalls of Joe Biden tracked to a Texas firm

Martin Hodás — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:34:01 +0000

The Attorney General's Office in New Hampshire made progress in investigating the robocall campaign that used the fake voice of President Joe Biden to deter people from voting in primaries. Read more...

A deepfake voice of Joe Biden was part of a vote suppression robocall campaign

Martin Hodás — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 23:28:01 +0000

A fake audio message impersonating Joe Biden was used to urge supporters not to vote in the presidential primary. The new incident reinforces national concern about the misuse of AI. Read more...

Beware! Big Head ransomware that looks like Windows update can also delete backups

Sayan Sen — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:06:02 +0000

Security researchers discovered that a new ransomware campaign, dubbed Big Head, is infecting devices by fooling users into thinking it is a critical Windows update, and it can even delete backups. Read more...

CERT Ukraine: Beware of fake Windows updates distributed via Microsoft Outlook domain emails

Sayan Sen — Mon, 01 May 2023 18:46:01 +0000

The CERT Ukraine has warned about a new malicious campaign that is targeting Ukrainian officials. The campaign is essentially distributing fake Windows updates via Outlook domain mails. Read more...

Amazon helps disrupt counterfeit networks that infringed on BMW, Hugo Boss, and more

Paul Hill — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 21:02:01 +0000

Amazon has helped authorities in China to disrupt three counterfeit product networks. A huge 240,000 fake items were seized by authorities after Amazon shared warehouse and manufacturing locations. Read more...

Apple removes Wordle clones from App Store, including those charging a premium

Usama Jawad — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 07:42:01 +0000

After a flood of Wordle clones - including those charging a premium - hit the App Store in the past few days, Apple is finally taking charge against copycats by removing them from the storefront. Read more...

Google removes fake Microsoft Authenticator Chrome extension after a month in the store

Usama Jawad — Wed, 19 May 2021 09:54:01 +0000

A fake Microsoft Authenticator extension for Chrome remained in the store for a month before Google finally removed it today. It redirected users to a suspicious website hosted in Poland. Read more...

Alleged anti-5G USB stick that sells for £339 costs just £5 to make

Paul Hill — Thu, 28 May 2020 13:16:01 +0000

A tear down of a £339 anti-5G USB stick, dubbed 5GBioShield, has found that it has an uncanny resemblance to cheap, £5 USB sticks that you can find online. The retailer claims it protects against 5G. Read more...

Facebook bans 470 "fake" Russian accounts and pages

Paul Hill — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 02:40:01 +0000

Facebook has deleted 470 accounts and pages that it suspects were fake and set up by Russians trying to influence politics. It said the ads did not target the recent US elections last year. Read more...

Ubisoft: Reports of low player count in For Honor is fake news

Usama Jawad — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 19:30:01 +0000

Following reports of Ubisoft's For Honor losing a lot of active players on Steam a few months ago, a company representative has now disputed the data, claiming it to be "fake news". Read more...

All those 'genuine' Apple chargers on Amazon? Yeah, they're fake

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 08:20:01 +0000

Apple has found that an overwhelming majority of chargers and cables sold and fulfilled by Amazon as 'genuine' Apple products, are in fact fake. The company is now suing one of the manufacturers. Read more...

Google, Mail.ru and Yahoo claim that more than 98% of the leaked credentials were bogus

Usama Jawad — Sat, 07 May 2016 10:52:01 +0000

Various email providers who were allegedly affected by a data breach that was supposed to have exposed over 272 million account credentials now claim that over 98% of these were bogus. Read more...

Fake "Tweetium" beta on the Windows 10 Mobile app store stealing users passwords

Byron Hinson — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 17:08:01 +0000

A fake application called "Tweetium Beta (Free)" managed to bypass undetected by Microsoft and onto the Windows 10 Mobile store. Anyone who has downloaded it could have risked their passwords. Read more...

Facebook wants to crack down on fake news in your feed

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:58:01 +0000

Facebook is trying to help its users and grow its value. The giant social network is tweaking its algorithms in an effort to limit the number of fake news stories that users see in their timelines. Read more...

eBay accused of perpetuating counterfeit product sales, silencing industry whistle blower

Timi Cantisano — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:24:02 +0000

It looks like eBay is under fire for perpetuating the sale of known counterfeit goods. A new investigative report shows that eBay assists merchants selling counterfeit goods by manipulating feedback. Read more...

Knock-off Nokia Lumia 920 appears in India

Tim Schiesser — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:44:13 +0000

A knock-off Lumia 920, called the Lamia R920, has appeared in India for around US$82, packing a wonderful 4.5-inch display and a huge 200 kB of internal memory. Don't expect Windows Phone though. Read more...

Windows Phone UI copied by Indian "Lemon" phone

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:48:41 +0000

For once a cheap rip-off phone is not loaded with fake iOS or Android, but instead fake Windows Phone! This absolutely fantastic Lemon Dual SIM Mobile T109 is sure to attract many buyers Read more...

Fake Apple apps hit Google Play

Tyler Holman — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:06:20 +0000

If you stopped by Google Play earlier today, you just might've had a chance to pick up some Apple designed apps for your Android device. Did hell freeze over? As it turns out, no, it did not. Read more...

Facebook: Over 83 million of our accounts are fake

John Callaham — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:24:01 +0000

In a new SEC filing, Facebook admitted that 8.7 percent of its subscribers numbers are duplicates, misclassified or "undesirable", meaning that it has a total of over 83 million "fake" accounts. Read more...

Fake Apple Stores in China prompt official investigation

Denis Wong — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:51:35 +0000

Earlier this week, there were reports from various bloggers regarding the discovery of fake Apple Stores in the Chinese city of Kunming. Thanks to American blogger BirdAbroad, Chinese officials have begun an investigation into all... Read more...

Fake Apple Store found in China

Stefano Elia — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:44:26 +0000

An American blogger who lives in China has made a rather unusual discovery; a fake Apple Store found in the remote Chinese city of Kunming. In the store itself, a variety of Apple products are... Read more...

The Windows 8 tablet notification screenshot is fake, and here's why

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:12:44 +0000

With so many Windows 8 screenshots floating around, it's very hard to tell fact from fiction. Unless you have inside knowledge by knowing the person who leaks you information, or are the one actually leaking... Read more...

New variant of MAC Defender - MacGuard - installs without admin privileges

Denis Wong — Wed, 25 May 2011 22:05:25 +0000

It might have been a bit of an easy victory for Apple if the string of rogue antiviruses targeting Mac OS X with names such as "MAC Defender," "MAC Protector," and "MAC Security" stopped on... Read more...

AppleCare reps instructed not to help customers with Mac malware

Denis Wong — Wed, 18 May 2011 22:42:13 +0000

Remember this fake antivirus, MAC Defender, that was making its rounds amongst Mac users earlier this month? Despite its simple payload and method of execution -- which requires manual intervention on the part of the... Read more...

Rogue antivirus software targets Mac users

Denis Wong — Tue, 03 May 2011 21:55:46 +0000

Before anyone is alarmed by the headline and the screenshot shown below - don't panic! While it appears to be yet another new case in the uncharted waters of malware existing on Mac OS X,... Read more...

Fake Chinese 500 GB external drive is one clever paperweight (literally)

Denis Wong — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 22:34:33 +0000

Just in time for this weekend, there appears to be a humourous story making its rounds on several news sites. You are probably all too familiar with some malicious eBay sellers selling portable electronics -... Read more...

Symantec: Fake security software on millions of computers

Matthew Hopson — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:18:20 +0000

Millions of computer in the US are infected with fake security software, which their owners may have even paid for, according to a cybercrime report from security company Symantec. Such software would only make computers... Read more...

Twitter suspends then re-enables fake Dalai Lama account

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:31:19 +0000

It appeared for sometime that the Tibetian spiritual leader Dalai Lama followed the footsteps of Pope Benedict XVI to use the latest technology to attract the tech-savy youths and joined twitter. The twitter account was... Read more...

Carbonite caught red-handed posting fake product reviews

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:26:30 +0000

Update: Carbonite have now responded to Neowin here. It was just 10 days ago we had the news of Belkin paying people to post fake reviews and the comments of anonymous Belkin employees confirming those... Read more...

Fake sites with Obama news infect users with malware

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:29:32 +0000

Trend Micro Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson has discovered fake websites with headlines like Barack Obama has refused to be a president and links that take the user to fake Obama sites which mimick the... Read more...

Belkin paying people to post fake reviews

Brad Sams — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:37:33 +0000

Corporations live and die off consumer reviews and when your product isn't getting the remarks you had hoped for what do you do? Well if you are Belkin apparently you pay people, 65... Read more...

Introducing the fake Microsoft Store

Tom Warren — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:21:38 +0000

Microsoft today unveiled it's "Retail Experience Center". The experience center is like a real Microsoft store but unfortunately it's fake. This store acts, feels and functions like a real store and was built at Microsoft's... Read more...

French Court Fines eBay Over Fake Goods

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:03:42 +0000

A French court has ordered eBay to pay a 40m euro fine (Â£36.1m; $63m) to luxury goods group LVMH for allowing fake copies of its goods to be auctioned on the site. The case was... Read more...

MPAA fake download site exposed

Tom Warren — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:19:48 +0000

The detective agency used by the Motion Picture Association of America has attempted to lure file sharers to a fake download site that installs spyware on their PCs. The MiiVi.com site offered downloads of complete... Read more...

Firefox, IE vulnerable to fake login pages?

Tom Warren — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:39:58 +0000

Mozilla's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords. Dubbed a reverse cross-site request, or RCSR, vulnerability by its discoverer, Robert Chapin,... Read more...

Bluebird, a fake Bluetooth factory, gets raided by SIG force

Steven Parker — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:26:08 +0000

The problem of finding "Bluetooth" devices in shops which turn out not to be genuine was highlighted a couple of years ago, by Ezurio (then TDK) - but the Bluetooth SIG has decided that "pressure... Read more...

Fake Maxtor Drives Reported in Japan

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:48:45 +0000

According to local press, forged Maxtor MaXLine II hard disk drives have been making their way into the Japanese market. Alleged fakes feature a 320GB capacity while Maxtor only produces 250GB and 300GB varieties... Read more...

Worm creates fake Google site

Howard Thomson — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:50:18 +0000

A worm that modifies a user's HOSTS file to redirect visitors of Google.com to a spoof website has been discovered. The worm was found by Panda Labs and is currently circulating on P2P networks Shareaza... Read more...