Analysts say the fears of regulatory headwinds are overblown as Gen Zers and millennials, rather than young children, are Pop ...

Pop-up spam might seem old-school, but it’s proving effective at disrupting scammers and making their work impossible.

When you're online, a browser plugin can block all those annoying ads that pop up and clutter up your screen — but ...

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.

In this case the scareware is deployed at the actor-controlled phishing sites that victims are taken to. On visiting the website, users get a fake pop-up alert “Apple security warning ...

To make the scareware seem legitimate, the pop-ups from Apple Security will continue to reappear even after you close them or click “deny” or “allow.” ...

The signs of scareware are easy to spot when you know what to look for. A sudden full-screen pop-up that won’t close normally is a major red flag.

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.

The FBI reports that victims lose approximately a billion dollars every year to tech support and pop-up scams. Microsoft's January 27 update to their browser Edge aims to reduce that figure.

Similarly, don’t contact any phone numbers or emails shown in a pop-up - if you think there’s a real issue, search the contact information separately and contact through official channels.