A pair of tech support businesses accused of swindling marks out of their hard-earned cash have agreed to cough up a $26 million settlement following an undercover probe by the FTC. Restoro and Reimage – both headquartered in Cyprus and, based on the the US watchdog’s complaint and settlement proposal [both PDFs], two arms of the same operation – have been running a pretty typical Windows antivirus scam since at least 2018, or so the regulator alleged.

Source: The Register