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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...