You’re browsing the web when suddenly your screen turns red. A warning flashes: “Your computer is infected! Call support immediately!” Maybe there’s a blaring alarm or a robotic voice telling you to ...

A new security feature for Microsoft Edge is now available for preview, helping people overcome scareware scams.

One of the most nefarious examples of scareware is the “tech support scam,” which falsely warn that your device is affected with malware and that you need to call a fake support number or ...

With its Edge browser,   Microsoft has begun implementing a new scareware filter. Thanks to a local machine learning model, ...

Scareware can appear unexpectedly, especially in rogue online advertisements. For example, you might accidentally click on a misleading banner ad while searching for a product manual, leading you ...

Scareware blocker specifically intervenes if a scam tool attempts to open a full-screen page, a tactic that can make it more difficult both to identify a scam and circumvent it — for example ...

Malicious actors have a variety of techniques to try and ensnare victims online, one of which is scareware. It entails displaying web pages designed to convince a user that their system has been ...

Scareware blocker specifically intervenes if a scam tool attempts to open a full-screen page, a tactic that can make it more difficult both to identify a scam and circumvent it -- for example ...