Clicking a captcha "I am not a robot" box and identifying images to prove it is second nature for many internet users. Now, ...

Fake CAPTCHA scams trick users into opening command windows and pasting malicious scripts, installing StealC malware that steals passwords silently.

“Message scam losses are on the rise,” is the headline in a recent edition of the AARP Bulletin. To be sure, in every single AARP publication as well as in Consumer Reports and other magazines, there ...

An 85-year-old woman was told her bank cards were compromised before she handed over $30,000, prosecutors say.

An innocent man has spoken of his terror after hackers demanded he hand over Bitcoin worth thousands or they would release what they claimed were photos of him accessing 'explicit' sites on the dark ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Security experts say a new scam is spreading fast, and it looks like something many people get all the time: A simple calendar ...

WILLIAMSPORT — A Chinese national with degrees from Penn State and Cornell is likely to be deported after pleading guilty in a nationwide computer hacking scam that cost victims some $10 million.

State officials are warning of a new email scam targeting emergency service personnel providers, agencies, and fire ...

It's hacker versus scammer. Scam baiter Jim Browning beats call center scammers at their own game. He’s able to hack their computer systems and watch their every move as they try to trick people out ...

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...