It’s the middle of a workday. While researching a project, a random ad pops up on your computer screen alerting you of a virus. The scary-looking, flashing warning tells you to download an “anti-virus ...

But scareware is sneaky — it often moves to a new web address before it can be blacklisted. That’s why Microsoft trained this tool using machine learning to recognize scareware tactics even when the ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new tool dubbed “scareware blocker,” which uses machine learning and computer vision to identify a very pervasive type of online scam. “Scareware” has blighted the web ...

We live in fast-paced and often worrying times, and fraudsters are primed to take advantage. Fear can be a powerful weapon and scammers know how to instill it in people and coerce them into taking ...