The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have cracked down on two international scareware rings based in Latvia that have resulted in more than $74 million in losses on more than a million ...

This “scareware” also targets PCs with fraudulent support calls. According to the FBI, billions are lost through scams each ...

But scareware is sneaky — it often moves to a ... These scams are effective enough that the FBI estimates Americans lose over a billion dollars per year to tech support fraud.