In February 2024, the woman was tricked by a computer support scheme that mimicked Microsoft customer support and transferred ...

Microsoft unveils new scam detection software The tool will be available to Microsoft Edge users This could lead to an end to ...

Microsoft has started testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine ...

Microsoft said that the live phone version of the scam involves miscreants impersonating help desk engineers from legitimate software companies. The scammers then pretend to warn users that their ...

While Microsoft support scams have been around for a while ... them that their computers are inundated with viruses. The phony help desk personnel would then convince the user to provide credit ...

Announced originally at Ignite in November, the scareware blocker in Microsoft Edge is now available in preview in the latest ...

Microsoft Edge's latest update introduces a security feature to combat scams that defraud victims of nearly a billion dollars ...

Edge's new scareware blocker aims to protect you from malicious websites that try to scam you through fear tactics. Here's ...

Microsoft is rolling out "scareware blocker," which uses machine learning to identify a very specific and pervasive type of ...