Throughout the last two years, scareware (fake security software), quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I recently did a Google search on a subject — can’t even remember what now, but that’s not important. As I ...

— -- Scareware has become the scourge of the Internet. Those deceptive promotions crafted to panic you into spending $30 to $80 for worthless antivirus protection can hit you just about anywhere ...

*Okay, they are an "international cyber crime ring" and the scareware racket is disgusting, but look at the amazing amount of national manpower arrayed to bust two conniving globalized youngsters who ...

Security firms often warn users about "scareware": malicious software that performs fake antivirus scans and then demands the user pay for a cleanup. Now a lawsuit claims that the world's top ...

C'mon, admit it. You were surfing the Internet at the office when you were supposed to be working; or you were at home killing time by visiting some so-called "adult" sites. Suddenly, something popped ...

Confronted with a message like this, most computer users feel compelled to take urgent action. Fortunately, instructions for what to do are right in front of them: click on a box to scan the computer.

Computer experts are warning users about those pop-up ads that say a device is infected with a virus. It looks authentic, but it’s not. The fake virus alerts are called “scareware”, because they look ...

Just how much money did scareware scammers steal from Internet users so far? According to an intelligence note posted by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the FBI is aware of an estimated ...

You’re on the web, minding your business—and then out of nowhere, you lose control of your screen. Pop-up windows flash warnings that your PC has been compromised ...