Tech support scammers are modern-day con artists, preying on our deepest technological fears and vulnerabilities. Tammy of Flagler Beach, Florida, recently reached out to us with a concerning email: ...

Tech support scams have risen significantly in recent years. According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, consumers and businesses lost almost a billion dollars ($924,512,658) to tech support ...

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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 as ...

The Internet Archive isn’t out of the woods yet. Hackers are now ridiculing the organization by responding to old support tickets. A reporter for The Verge received a response to a support ticket ...

A retired lawyer lost the money in a tech support scam, a type of online fraud that is surging. Citibank said it couldn’t recover the funds, which criminals wired from inside his account. David Welles ...

Buckeye Broadband is a regional internet provider serving northwest Ohio and parts of southeast Michigan with both cable and fiber connections. Speeds range from 200 Mbps to 10 Gbps, giving households ...