Beware: Fake Google ads for Paramount support are scams designed to get you to buy gift cards and drain your bank account.

Google filed a lawsuit today against alleged China-based operators behind "Lighthouse," a phishing platform it says fuels the toll-payment text scam flooding U.S. phones. Why it matters: Scam networks ...

Have you seen any pop-up ads lately? At Black Hat 2025, security researchers exposed how a shadowy group uses fake alerts and other scams to exploit online ad systems and target unsuspecting users. I ...

Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty Images file) Google is suing a Chinese-speaking cybercriminal group it says is responsible for a massive wave of ...

A massive Android ad fraud operation dubbed "SlopAds" was disrupted after 224 malicious applications on Google Play were used to generate 2.3 billion ad requests per day. The ad fraud campaign was ...