A Winnebago County, Wisconsin, woman lost more than $400,000 in retirement savings after scammers used a fake computer pop-up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: KFDA NewsChannel10/X. A Central Texas woman saw a pop-up on her computer claiming she had a virus. Police say the ...

The update screen is a normal occurrence on Windows machines, so of course hackers are now manipulating it to sneak malware onto devices. The scheme, a recent iteration of a ClickFix attack, is ...

A Charlotte man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for participating in a multi-million-dollar, international tech scam that mostly targeted elderly victims with fake online pop-up ads, federal ...

It often looks genuine, using familiar logos and alarming wording to make you think your computer is at risk. The scammers are hoping you'll panic and click the message without stopping to think.

The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office is cautioning people not to fall for online pop-up scams that can cause their computers to be infected with viruses or even locked. According to MDSO's Cyber Crime ...

A retired Kingfisher teacher narrowly avoided losing nearly $30,000 after falling victim to a cyber scam before Thanksgiving, prompting bank officials to warn Oklahomans to be wary of pop-up scams and ...

CAMBY, Ind. — A 74-year-old woman was scammed out of millions of dollars after a pop-up warning on her computer convinced her to convert her life savings into gold and hand over the valuable coins to ...

A Natick woman was nearly scammed out of nearly $92,000 after responding to a computer pop-up message. Scammers instructed her to withdraw the money and deposit it into what they called an "encrypted ...