Category: MalwareBytes

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26
Jul
2024

Meta takes down 63,000 sextortion-related accounts on Instagram

Meta announced the take-down of 63,000 sextortion-related Instagram accounts in Nigeria alone. The action was directed against a group known…

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25
Jul
2024

Windows update may present users with a BitLocker recovery screen

Some Windows users may see a BitLocker Recovery screen after applying the Microsoft patch Tuesday updates. BitLocker is a Windows…

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24
Jul
2024

TracFone will pay $16 million to settle FCC data breach investigation

Following three separate data breaches between 2021 and 2023 which exposed the proprietary information (PI) of TracFone Wireless customers, the…

Google logo
23
Jul
2024

Google admits it can’t quite quit third-party cookies

For more than a year, Google has said it would phase out the third-party tracking cookies that power much of…

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22
Jul
2024

Heritage Foundation data breach containing personal data is available online

The Heritage Foundation this month denied that it had suffered an earlier system breach and the subsequent leaking of internal…

week in security
22
Jul
2024

A week in security (July 15 – July 21)

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

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19
Jul
2024

CrowdStrike update at center of Windows “Blue Screen of Death” outage

A faulty update from the cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike crashed countless Windows computers and sent them into a “Blue Screen of…

data breach report
19
Jul
2024

Number of data breach victims goes up 1,000%

Nope, that headline’s not a typo. Over one thousand percent. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) tracked 1,041,312,601 data breach…

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18
Jul
2024

Gen Z breakups tainted by login abuse for spying and stalking, research shows

Breaking up is hard to do, but for younger Americans today, ending a romantic relationship requires more than a heart-to-heart…

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17
Jul
2024

Rite Aid says 2.2 million people affected in data breach

The US’ third-largest pharmacy chain Rite Aid has filed a data breach notification in which it reports that the data…

Rabbit logo
16
Jul
2024

AI device Rabbit r1 logged user interactions without an option to erase them before selling

Rabbit, the manufacturer of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant r1 has issued a security advisory telling users it’s found a…

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15
Jul
2024

How an AI “artist” stole a woman’s face, with Ali Diamond (Lock and Code S05E15)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Full-time software engineer and part-time Twitch streamer Ali Diamond is used to…