In this survey we discuss recent progress in the study of groups and Lie rings admitting a Frobenius group of automorphisms F H with kernel F and complement H. Our main objective is the case, where a finite group G is acted on by F H in such a way that the fixed-point subgroup of the Frobenius kernel is trivial: CG(F) = 1. Recent results of Khukhro, Makarenko and Shumyatsky show that in this situation various properties of the group G such as the order, rank, nilpotency, nilpotent length, exponent, nilpotency class are close to the corresponding properties of the fixed-point subgroup of the Frobenius complement, CG(H). Special emphasis is placed on Lie-theoretic methods used for bounding the nilpotency class and exponent of G.