You need to beware of mobile scareware ads which say your phone has a virus. This week one of the Android Authority team saw an antivirus scareware ad on his phone and was able to capture a couple ...

Ads for bogus security software are popping up everywhere. Microsoft and the FTC are fighting back, but jaded old geeks need to do their part, too.

Scareware has gone mobile: Users of Android devices are starting to see sleazy ads warning that they need to upgrade their device’s battery. The supposed battery-saver apps that those ads prod ...

Trusting these scareware ads might cost their victims money either by sending premium rate SMS messages, subscribing to unnecessary services, ...

Scammers tricked the New York Times’ Digital Advertising department into placing a malicious ad for fake antivirus software on the NYTimes.com Web site over the weekend, the company confirmed ...

In the New York Times scareware incident, the hackers bought ad space on the Times site, used it to display legitimate ads for a couple of days and then replaced the ads with the scareware scam.

Microsoft sues over malicious 'scareware' ads. Ap. Monday 21 September 2009 11:10 BST. Comments. ... also known as scareware, that falsely claims to detect or prevent threats on the computer." ...

Microsoft filed lawsuits against five companies Thursday, accusing them of using malicious advertisements to trick victims into installing software on their computers.

Check Point says the malware could display ads from "the main ad providers" or switch to its own ad server, which provided porn ads, scareware ads, and ads that tricked the user into signing up ...

Scammers tricked the New York Times' Digital Advertising department into placing a malicious ad for fake antivirus software on the NYTimes.com Web site.