The scam would often start with fake Microsoft Windows pop-ups warning that viruses ... serious computer problems – ...

One example is the McAfee virus pop-up scam ... which they hope will lead you to drop your guard and click on the fake alert.

The app also requests various permissions and shows a fake virus detection alert to the user, eventually leading to more advertisements. Interestingly, the app detects almost every application as ...

A widespread phishing campaign has targeted nearly 12,000 GitHub repositories with fake "Security Alert" issues, tricking developers into authorizing a malicious OAuth app that grants attackers full ...

The “updates” or “alerts” in the pop-up windows call for ... Rogue security software might report a virus, even though your computer is actually clean. The software might also fail to ...