Users receive fake alerts claiming their system is locked due to unusual activity and are prompted to enter Apple IDs and passwords to unlock it. A new phishing campaign targeting Mac systems ...

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 ...

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 ...

It looks serious. It feels urgent. But it’s all fake. This is scareware — a scam designed to make you believe your computer has been compromised. The goal is to pressure you into calling a ...

The company has now added a new feature that aims to make the experience safer on the internet by preventing Scareware. This addition aims to protect users from deceptive tactics that trick them ...

Microsoft has introduced a new scareware blocker in its Edge browser to protect users from online scams leveraging scareware tactics. This new feature detects and blocks aggressive web pages using ...

The scareware blocker will even detect new and emerging scams and let you report them to Microsoft. The scareware blocker will even detect new and emerging scams and let you report them to Microsoft.

Microsoft has been testing an AI-powered scareware blocker feature for a while now. Starting with version 133, you can finally turn it on from Edge's Settings. Scareware blocker settings ...

Available now to all users via a preview, the browser’s new “Scareware blocker” is an AI-based tool for dismissing and navigating away from these troublesome interruptions. While Edge’s ...

Microsoft this week announced that its scareware blocker, which aims to identify potential scam sites and messages, is now in public preview. The feature, which was first announced in November at ...

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 ...