#ScareWare
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #ScareWare from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #scareware
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-16 03:29 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-16 03:29 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-16 03:29 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~27782 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 12:00
Languages: English (29) · German (6) · Italian (3) · Dutch (1) · Polish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.8
Top of the latest posts
Sind auf euren Bildschirmen schon einmal zwielichtige Meldungen beim Surfen aufgepoppt?! 🤐 Oftmals warnen sie eindringlich davor, dass der PC oder Laptop mit einem Virus infiziert sei, und legen nahe, umgehend Sicherheitssoftware zu instal
Ars Technica (@arstechnica) Google Ads를 통해 실제 경고처럼 보이는 스케어웨어 광고가 일반 사용자에게 노출된 사례가 포착됐다. 검색 광고 생태계가 악성코드 유도·가짜 보안 경고 등 피싱의 유통 경로로 악용될 수 있어, 개발자와 조직은 광고 링크 기반 설치·로그인 유도에 대한 보안 교육 및 URL 검증을 강화할 필요가 있다. https://x.com/arstechnica/status/21035713
Google Ads are serving a fake Defender lock that traps victims in fullscreen until they call the scam line. 9 detections, 7 IOCs. Full analysis + IOCs: https://intel.threadlinqs.com/threat/TL-2026-2651 #ThreatIntel #Tech #ShopEase #Fake #Sc
What “scareware” means
WikipediaScareware is a form of malware which uses social engineering to cause shock, anxiety, or the perception of a threat in order to manipulate users into buying unwanted software. Scareware is part of a class of malicious software that includes rogue security software, ransomware and other scam software that tricks users into believing their computer is infected with a virus, then suggests that they download and pay for fake antivirus software to remove it. Usually the virus is fictional and the sof
“Scareware” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#scareware across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #scareware straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/scareware