Windows users running Firefox are being targeted by scareware groomed to look convincingly like Microsoft Update, according to a security adviser at Sophos. The news once again demonstrates that cyber ...

The US Federal Trade Commission says two antivirus software products, Restoro and Reimage, are actually fake products that have allegedly conned buyers out of "ten of millions" of dollars, according ...

Just weeks after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission shut down two companies accused of selling fake antivirus software, a new player has moved into the market, aided by glitches in the Microsoft and ...

Online protection firm Proofpoint warns that new and sophisticated malware that impersonates Google Chrome and Microsoft has the potential to steal money from Windows device owners. Multiple groups of ...

A researcher referred to as es3n1n has developed a tool called Defendnot that is capable of tricking a Windows computer into disabling Microsoft Defender, leaving the device completely unprotected ...

Criminals can make as much as $5 million a year by planting nearly worthless security software on PCs, then badgering users with so many bogus malware warnings that they fork over their credit card, a ...

Online security experts believe Google's quest to remain transparent could work against it. Using a combination of Google Trends, search engine optimization (SEO) and malicious ads, virus distribution ...

New applications are turning up on Facebook. Unfortunately, some of them are fake antivirus programs. While researching Web sites that host malicious software, Roger Thompson, chief research officer ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Apple Inc is fighting what security experts say may be the most pernicious types of computer virus to ever target its line of Mac computers. The company has issued a security ...

Scammers have been using redirector links on major Web sites like the Microsoft.com and IRS.gov domains to make their malicious links pop up very high in Google search results Just weeks after the U.S ...