Microsoft Edge has a new feature known as "Scareware Blocker" that helps you block (primarily) tech support online scams. In this guide, I'll help you understand and enable the feature on Windows 11.

Microsoft Edge has security feature called Scareware Blocker. It is designed to protect users from deceptive or scam websites that use scare tactics to make them download malicious software or pay ...

Microsoft has begun testing a new "scareware blocker" for Edge on Windows PCs. The feature uses machine learning to detect tech support scams. It was introduced at the 2024 Ignite conference in ...

Rogue Security Software, also known as Scareware, is software that appears to be beneficial from a security perspective but provides limited or no security, generates erroneous or misleading ...

The hackers behind the scareware previously targeted Windows users but switched to macOS after Microsoft introduced an ...

Those using a Mac are now susceptible to a phishing attack that's been plaguing Windows users for a long time.

There are also new policies for the recently launched Scareware Blocker, changes for Entra ID users, and more. Microsoft Edge 134 also includes all the changes and updates Microsoft added to the ...

The most interesting part of the campaign is the techniques used to only deliver the scareware payload to target computers, and avoid detection by automated scanners. It seems that around the time ...

According to security vendor LayerX, the "scareware" campaign has been hosted on malicious sites designed to resemble the official domains of major companies. An unsuspecting victim can encounter ...