Meta’s face-recognition code raises new concerns about smart glasses
Meta’s smart glasses are once again at the center of a privacy debate due to face recognition. WIRED reports that Meta had quietly embedded unreleased…
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Update Chrome: Google patches actively exploited vulnerability and 73 others
Google has issued updates for the Chrome browser, patching a number of high‑severity vulnerabilities. The update includes fixes for 74 vulnerabilities, including one that is being actively…
Americans lost nearly $900 million to AI-powered scams, FBI says
The 2025 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Internet Crime Report shows that Americans reported $893,346,472 in AI‑related scam losses. Those losses stem from 22,364 AI-related…
Pirated PC games are delivering password-stealing malware
A new Windows malware campaign hides inside pirated PC games and modified installers for franchises like Far Cry, Need for Speed, FIFA, and Assassin’s Creed.…
A week in security (June 1 – June 7)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Stay safe! Let’s face it, an incognito window can only do so much. Breaches, dark web trading, credit fraud. Malwarebytes Identity Theft…
AI: Threat, tool, or both?
Public attitudes toward Artificial Intelligence (AI) are changing, and we wanted to understand why. A recent Pew Research survey found that about half of adults…
Meta’s AI support bot happily handed Instagram accounts to hackers
Customer service chatbots have one job: get the user what they’re asking for without bothering a human. Meta’s new AI support assistant took that brief…
Travel scams are everywhere. Here’s how to avoid them
Planning a holiday should be exciting, fun, and not a cybersecurity risk. But booking flights, hotels, and rental properties often means sharing sensitive personal and…
We found this fake-invoice campaign while scammers were still building it
A new batch of fake payment invoices is being staged right now, and we caught the campaign while it was still being put together. The…
Infostealers are becoming the go-to phishing payload
Phishing has changed. Slowly but surely, cybercriminals are turning to infostealers instead. Traditional phishing hasn’t gone away. Far from it. But many attackers are no…
Keep getting calls from questionable numbers? Meet Scam Number Check
Have you ever gotten a phone call and had a gut feeling that those random digits looked extra suspicious? It happens to millions of people…
These convincing copyright notices are designed to steal Google logins
A new scam is targeting people who publish Chrome extensions. The scam arrives as an official-looking “copyright removal request” claiming your extension is about to…