Google’s Scam Detection feature is now coming to the Samsung phone app on the Galaxy S26 range. This feature uses on-device AI during phone calls to detect when you’re talking to a potential scammer.

Online scams are evolving fast, but the tricks behind them are surprisingly predictable once you know what to look for. I focus here on eight tactics that are rising right now and show how to spot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The year 2026 is almost here, and with the new year comes a new wave of scams that could potentially drain your bank account. From ...

Romance scams are among the most emotionally damaging forms of cyber crime because they combine carefully manufactured intimacy with financial theft – the scammers go after your heart, and then your ...

Beyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down ...

The following content is brought to you by Mashable partners. If you buy a product featured here, we may earn an affiliate commission or other compensation. A decade ago, staying safe online felt ...

Email scams have become one of the fastest ways scammers steal money from older adults. A single click can expose bank accounts, personal data and retirement savings built over a lifetime. That ...

First, it was phony parking tickets, then toll road scams, now scammers are at it again with an all-new, all-bad DMV text scam. The unfortunate popularity of this latest grift has caused states from ...