Tech support scams cost victims billions each year and often target the most vulnerable users. Scammers use fear and urgency ...

Microsoft users are reporting a particularly difficult-to-detect scam: phishing emails sent from a genuine Microsoft email address that’s classified as “trustworthy” by the company itself. The emails ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Scam emails are getting better at looking official. This one claims to be an urgent warning from Microsoft about your email account. It looks serious. It feels time sensitive. And that is exactly the ...

A new phishing campaign is exploiting a visual trick that is easy to miss and hard to unsee once you know it. Attackers are using the domain rnicrosoft.com to impersonate Microsoft and steal login ...

In a major crackdown, Bengaluru police have dismantled a transnational cybercrime syndicate that defrauded American and UK citizens through a sophisticated Microsoft support scam. The gang, operating ...

TRICKS THEY ARE USING TO GET YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. YOU TURN ON YOUR LAPTOP OR YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU SEE A VERY FRIGHTENING MESSAGE. SOMETIMES WITH A BLARING AUDIBLE ...

Tech giants join forces to fight online scams with AI, data sharing and new protections. Here’s what it means for your safety ...

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Others Unite Under New Anti-Scam Pact Your email has been sent Google, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others join a new voluntary accord to share signals, tighten safeguards, ...