The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) can now go after scammers posing as tech support providers even if it's the consumer who called them up. It has just approved amendments to its Telemarketing Sales ...

FBI investigation shuts down Indian call centers behind $48M in scams. Learn how social engineering, amygdala hijacks, ...

A 14-year-old committed suicide after following the advice of an AI chatbot. Another family is suing the same one — Character AI — after it told an autistic 14-year-old to kill his parents. It also ...

A group of major tech companies has signed a new agreement to fight online scams, focusing on better detection, user protection, and coordination — though the effort remains voluntary.

This is no way to keep up with grandma. Cruel scammers are cheating elderly people out of millions of dollars with a new high tech scam that uses AI to find their grandchildren’s voices on TikTok and ...

Eleven brands, including Google, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI and Match Group — which owns the dating apps Hinge and Tinder — signed an industry accord promising to share intelligence about threats on their ...

Now, consumers will be protected even if they initiate a call to a tech support scammer. Now, consumers will be protected even if they initiate a call to a tech support scammer. is a former news ...

Google, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others join a new voluntary accord to share signals, tighten safeguards, and fight online ...