Users are tricked into believing their device is infected and forced to hand over personal data
Users are being targeted by more than 60 million download attempts per week
Researchers find more than 30 'Minecraft cheat' apps that attempt to trick users into subscribing to premium rate SMS services
Android devices are increasingly being frozen until their owners pay a ransom, Symantec has warned
Selling solutions to non-existing security problems is not OK
Kaspersky Lab says it is increasingly difficult to tell fake antivirus products from real antivirus software
BitTorrent's µTorrent downloaders got fake antivirus scareware, not the client they wanted
Apple has released a security upgrade for Mac OS X that includes a malware removal tool
Google has removed 26 Apps said to be infected with a stripped down version of DriodDream
Firefox users beware, as Sophos has discovered advanced scareware that utilises fake Firefox virus warnings
The days of Mac OS X being seemingly immune from viruses and other malware are gone forever
A security expert claims to have found a Russian link to some of the recent Mac scareware software
After days of silence, Apple has posted instructions on how to remove the MacDefender fake antivirus scareware
Phishing and malware is becoming more and more common on social networking websites, warns Microsoft
Fake antivirus scanners are now migrating across to mobile handsets warn security researchers
Organised gangs are tricking security-conscious Internet users with fake anti-virus