Social engineering remains one of the easiest ways for cybercriminals to penetrate enterprise defenses; however, trained ...

DuckDuckGo is introducing a free security upgrade, Scam Blocker, to protect users from a wider range of online scams on iOS and Mac.

The privacy-focused web browser DuckDuckGo has boosted its anti-scam features. It can now detect and block fake ecommerce stores, ...

Microsoft Edge has security feature called Scareware Blocker. It is designed to protect users from deceptive or scam websites that use scare tactics to make them download malicious software or pay ...

How this phishing campaign works on Mac As 9to5Mac notes, the campaign quickly pivoted to targeting macOS and Safari after anti-scareware was released for Edge, Chrome, and Firefox in February.

Microsoft Edge's Scareware blocker is a local AI model designed to help users avoid annoying and dangerous full screen pop-ups while browsing the web.

Microsoft this week announced that its scareware blocker, which aims to identify potential scam sites and messages, is now in public preview. The feature, which was first announced in November at ...

Microsoft unveils new scam detection software The tool will be available to Microsoft Edge users This could lead to an end to 'tech support scams' if widely adopted ...

Last weekend, Google was found again serving a malicious website at the top of Search as a sponsored result. This isn’t the first time Google Ads has approved websites with embedded malware; in ...

Use reputable pop-up/ad blockers to reduce the chances of scareware appearing on your screen in the first place. Many of these blockers will stop malicious pop-ups before they reach you.

That said, according to the Secret Service, Kadariya and his cohorts allegedly delivered 'scareware' ads to victims with fake messages designed to trick them into thinking they had contracted a ...

Angler Exploit Kit enabled the delivery of the "scareware" ads to display fake messages claiming to have identified a virus or other issues with the victim's device. The messages then tried to ...