This scammer thought he was stealing another easy $40,000. Instead, he ended up begging for his own computer back. After ...

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. A fake computer alert can be the first move in a scam that ends with someone moving their own ...