A resurfacing scam known as “Click Fix” is tricking people into installing malware on their own devices by posing as a “prove ...
Federal complaint says a Windows GDID tied Peter Stokes to a May 2025 jewelry retailer hack that stole 77GB and drew an $8M ...
Several of the scams started with familiar setups. One person lost $3,500 after buying Apple gift cards for someone posing as ...
Using antivirus software on every device you own made sense in the early days of personal computing, but modern smartphones ...
The big picture: People have grumbled about Windows telemetry for years, to the point that an entire cottage industry of tools that clean up the OS now exists just to strip the tracking bits out.
The "Hi Mom" smishing scam uses a fake family emergency text to trick parents into replying, then escalates to requests for ...
An 84-year-old Washington resident handed about $420,000 in gold to a man waiting at the end of the resident’s driveway after ...
Clallam County residents have lost nearly $700,000 to scams recently, the Sheriff’s Office has said. This week, four separate fraud reports to the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office have come in with the ...
Chrome quietly pushed a 4GB Gemini Nano AI model to users, while a fake Perplexity extension wiretapped searches. Two sides of Chrome's consent problem.
Technology from American companies is being used to power a revolution in the scam industry, playing a key role in the ...
The AP/“FRONTLINE” investigation was based on tens of thousands of leaked scam center files, videos and photos; an analysis ...