A Victim Was Told Their Computer Was Hacked. Deputies Say a Courier Came for $30,000

A Charlotte County man is accused of acting as a courier in a $30,000 scam that targeted a victim in Deep Creek, Florida. The ...

Scammers are using a fake captcha hack to steal your personal information: 'Verify you're human.' Here's the big red flag to watch for

Hackers are using this insidious scam to get unwitting victims to install malware themselves.
Penn Live

Chinese national living in Pa. admits role in $10M computer hacking scheme

WILLIAMSPORT — A Chinese national with degrees from Penn State and Cornell is likely to be deported after pleading guilty in a nationwide computer hacking scam that cost victims some $10 million.
AOL

Fake CAPTCHA scam can hack your computer

You've seen CAPTCHA checks everywhere. You click a box. You move on. No big deal. Now imagine that same box asking you to press a few keys on your keyboard. It might tell you to open a command window ...

The Scam Starts With a Fake Computer Alert. It Can End With a Drained Retirement Account

A fake computer alert can be the first move in a scam that ends with someone moving their own retirement money out of reach. The ... Read More ...
Morning Overview on MSN

The FBI’s “phantom hacker” scam stacks three fake callers to empty seniors’ savings

Seniors across the United States are losing entire retirement accounts to a phone scam that deploys not one but three ...
NBC News

Hackers breach texting service used by New York state, sending hundreds of thousands of scam texts

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...