Last week on Malwarebytes Labs:
- LinkedIn adds new checks for fake profiles and work histories
- Kothamine malware uses Tailscale’s tailcat to evade network detection
- Criminals turn placeholder domain into ClickFix trap
- That shipping rebate offer may come with a monthly charge
- OpenAI agent breached Australian government site, took months to report it
- New Browser Guard features add protection before and after you click
- Update Chrome: 108 security fixes for desktop, new release for Android
- Google’s location data privacy failures draw a €403 million fine
- How device code phishing gives scammers access to your account
- Fake Claude Max giveaway hides a Google account phishing trap
- ShinyHunters claims FBI breach was revenge for “false” report
- Some cheap smart glasses are a security disaster
- Meta’s Muse AI assistant has a zero-day that can turn it into a Mac backdoor
- Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI
- The AI plot to scan and destroy books (Lock and Code S07E19)
- The fake sites using a cheap toolkit to sell $2,000 AI subscriptions
- Gemini’s breach of real companies exposes an AI guardrail problem
- ShinyHunters hacks rival extortion gang and takes over its dark web site
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