A fake “Hi Mom” text uses family concern to make an unknown number feel believable. The scam often claims a phone broke, then asks you to continue on a different number. Replying can lead to requests ...

Widely available AI is making payment fraud easier to perpetrate and harder to detect, raising the stakes for controls, ...

A Tonawanda, New York, resident’s computer screen allegedly flashed a warning that said “Microsoft Security” and told them to ...

Anyone who has clicked through a website and been asked to confirm they are not a robot now faces a new risk. The Federal ...

A 72-year-old Ohio woman had already sent money once after scammers threatened to ruin her reputation with a fake computer ...

Scammers are using fake party invitations that appear to come from friends, family members, coworkers, and neighbors.

Scammers are using fake party invitations that appear to come from friends, family members, coworkers, and neighbors. At ...

If you're a frequent short-form video scroller, you've probably seen one of Julius Mondragon's videos appear on your screen in 2026. In January, he began posting videos in which he approaches people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. A fake computer alert can be the first move in a scam that ends with someone moving their own ...

His instinct was to be skeptical. He was nearly certain the video was another fake. He chewed on his pencil and watched it again, slowing down the video, breaking it apart frame by frame. The camera ...

Security researchers have found a way to hijack AI coding agents with nothing but a fake bug report. They call it Agentjacking. It needs no malware, no stolen password, and no breach of the target.

A likely North Korean threat actor has phished software developers at almost 100 organizations with fake job and code-review lures to steal cryptocurrency and credentials. According to new analysis ...