Scammers are abusing Google's advertising platform to target customers of telecoms and utility brands and trick them into ...

Agency buyers who manage portfolios of Google Ads and Merchant Center accounts are being targeted by sophisticated scam artists who hijack those accounts, drain client funds and sometimes lock out ...

Most sponsored ads on Google and other search engines are legitimate, but some are out to steal your money and information. Consider these results when I did a Google search on “fake sponsored ads”: ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is blamed more often than any other site for hosting scam advertisements that have cost consumers ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta knows Chinese scammers are bilking users out of billions of dollars – but has allowed them to keep ...

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 ...

When something goes wrong with your bank account or delivery, your first instinct might be to type the company name into Google and call the first customer service number you see. But that simple ...

Meta's ad revenue is set to soar, with scam and banned-product ads projected to account for a whopping 10% in 2024, ...

Over the past few years, YouTube has been hit with a series of cryptocurrency scams. In 2020, the company faced at least 18 lawsuits over it.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Updated November 9 with further warnings from Google regarding ...