DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused web browser and search engine, has expanded the scope of its Scam Blocker tool. In addition ...

DuckDuckGo isn't the absolute best privacy-focused browser, it is an excellent alternative to Chrome that doesn't have the ...

T hese days, online scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Thanks to URL shorteners, you don’t even know what the ...

DuckDuckGo's latest update boosts Scam Blocker to catch fake stores, crypto scams, and scareware—no account needed.

The DuckDuckGo web browser has expanded its built-in Scam Blocker tool to protect against a broader range of online scams, ...

That type of scam is known as scareware, and it's a threat that Microsoft is working to counter with a new option in its Edge browser. Also: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster ...

Basically, scareware, also known as rogueware or put in simple terms, fake security software, is a legitimately looking application that is delivered to the end user through illegal traffic ...

151; -- 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 ...

In cyberspace, one common way of doing so is via something called scareware. Scareware is a classic bluff that trades on our anxieties about cybersecurity problems that might affect our devices ...

You’d think it was the end of the world. The fact that Mac users have fallen victim to “scareware” scams — the kind that have long plagued Windows users — shouldn’t come as a surprise.

On this week's Tech Tips, we discuss scareware and how to avoid getting trapped by it. Cybercriminals have learned over the years that the most effective way to steal from unsuspecting targets is ...

Microsoft has started testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine learning (ML) to detect tech support scams. Scareware scams (also known ...