Category: MalwareBytes

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14
Feb
2025

12 Million Zacks accounts leaked by cybercriminal

A cybercriminal claimed to have stolen 15 million data records from the customers and clients of the company Zacks—a number…

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14
Feb
2025

How AI was used in an advanced phishing campaign targeting Gmail users

In May, 2024, the FBI warned about the increasing threat of cybercriminals using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in their scams. At…

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12
Feb
2025

Fake Etsy invoice scam tricks sellers into sharing credit card information 

This article was researched and written by Stefan Dasic, manager, research and response for ThreatDown, powered by Malwarebytes. As an…

Gambling firms are secretly sharing your data with Facebook 
12
Feb
2025

Gambling firms are secretly sharing your data with Facebook 

While you might think you’re hitting the jackpot, whether you’ve consented to it or not, online gambling sites are playing…

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11
Feb
2025

Phishing evolves beyond email to become latest Android app threat

There are plenty of phish in the sea, and the latest ones have little interest in your email inbox. In…

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11
Feb
2025

Apple fixes zero-day vulnerability used in “extremely sophisticated attack”

Apple has released an emergency security update for a vulnerability which it says may have been exploited in an “extremely…

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11
Feb
2025

Apple ordered to grant access to users’ encrypted data

Last week, an article in the Washington Post revealed the UK had secretly ordered Apple to provide blanket access to…

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10
Feb
2025

A suicide reveals the lonely side of AI chatbots, with Courtney Brown (Lock and Code S06E03)

Today on the Lock and Code podcast… In February 2024, a 14-year-old boy from Orlando, Florida, committed suicide after confessing…

week in security
10
Feb
2025

A week in security (February 3 – February 9)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Last week on ThreatDown: Stay safe! Our business solutions remove all remnants of ransomware and…

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07
Feb
2025

20 Million OpenAI accounts offered for sale

A cybercriminal acting under the monicker “emirking” offered 20 million OpenAI user login credentials this week, sharing what appeared to…

packages pile up at USPS
06
Feb
2025

New scams could abuse brief USPS suspension of inbound packages from China, Hong Kong

I would be the last one to provide scammers with good ideas, but as a security provider, sometimes we need…

University site cloned to evade ad detection distributes fake Cisco installer
06
Feb
2025

University site cloned to evade ad detection distributes fake Cisco installer

There is a constant “cat and mouse” game between defenders and attackers, the latter trying to outsmart and get a…