Scammers got into her computer after a pop-up convinced her there was an issue with it. She’s not alone. The FBI logged $2.13 billion in tech-support scam losses last year.

A fake Norton refund scam starts like thousands of others—until the investigators secretly reverse the remote connection and ...

A woman says she lost $22,500 after scammers posing as Microsoft convinced her to give them access to her computer, allowing them to steal banking information and drain her accounts.

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Bhavesh Kumar Thakkar, 45, was in the United States on a spousal visa. From at least September 2022 and continuing until Sept. 17, 2025, ...

Hiding your IP address doesn’t matter if your VPN service is secretly logging your activity and harvesting full device permissions.

The best way to spot phishing emails is to know what to look for and these are some of the biggest red flags to help keep you ...

You may be thinking “I would never fall for that.” But scams are designed to hack your brain into believing the seemingly ...

Bored with your functional, smooth-running PC? From ransomware skulls to free USB drives, here's your step-by-step guide to ...

If you get a call from an unknown number, don't answer it. If it seems suspicious, block it. Report it as a nuisance call.Current countermeasures against scam calls generally follow this approach.Of ...

I’m the person they turn to because I “know about computers.” So when I received a text from one of my neighbors, a woman in ...

The goal was not to install malware or lock the computer. It was to create enough confusion to get people to call the number ...

WILLIAMSPORT – A former Penn State student has admitted participating in a nationwide computer-hacking scam that took victims for millions of dollars. Kuo Zhang, 33, of New Jersey, pleaded guilty ...