Roblox-focused Discord communities are facing heightened risks from AI-crafted phishing and evolving Murder Mystery 2 trading scams. Attackers are exploiting urgency, trust, and deceptive tactics to ...

Just about every day, we receive emails from readers who have encountered new scams. Many involve cryptocurrency. The pattern keeps repeating. Someone receives a message that feels urgent, emotional ...

iPhone users are the target of a new scam. The quickly spreading threat, detailed in a warning from data research site Consumer Affairs, uses messages — including fake “Apple Pay fraud alerts” — and ...

Apple warns of a new scam targeting millions of iPhone users. Learn the red flags, how it works, and how to protect your account and finances. Apple has issued a warning to its global user base as a ...

Cybercriminals are increasingly using fake CAPTCHA prompts to trick users into enabling malware and scam notifications. Security experts warn the tactic is spreading rapidly through ads, pirated ...

The WhatsApp logo appears on a smartphone screen and as a background on a computer screen in this photo illustration in Athens, Greece, on August 6, 2025. WhatsApp takes down 6.8 million accounts ...

Americans are losing at least $119 billion every year to scams, according to a new estimate from the nonprofit Consumer Federation of America, a consumer advocacy group. Subscribe to read this story ...

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...

The scam call started like any other — confident voice, fake authority, urgent threats. But this time, the “victim” wasn’t who they thought. What follows is a complete reversal, as the scammers slowly ...

Your iPhone calendar used to remind you about dentist appointments and dinner reservations. Now? It might be screaming that you’ve “won a prize” — or worse, that your device is infected and your bank ...

PCWorld reports that cybercriminals are exploiting Microsoft Power BI’s legitimate notification feature to send convincing phishing emails from genuine Microsoft addresses. These fake payment alerts ...

There are reports that a legitimate Microsoft email address—which Microsoft explicitly says customers should add to their allow list—is delivering scam spam. According to an Ars reader, the address on ...