Category: MalwareBytes

active seniors
02
Oct
2025

Scam Facebook groups send malicious Android malware to seniors

An infostealer and banking Trojan rolled into one is making the rounds in Facebook groups aimed at “active seniors”. Attackers…

Sendit app logo
02
Oct
2025

Sendit tricked kids, harvested their data, and faked messages, FTC claims

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued Sendit’s parent company, saying it signed up children under 13, collected their personal…

Gemini AI logo
01
Oct
2025

Gemini AI flaws could have exposed your data

Security researchers discovered three vulnerabilities in Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. Although now patched, this “Trifecta”, as the researchers…

Tile logo
30
Sep
2025

Tile trackers plagued by weak security, researchers warn

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology scrutinized the security of the popular Tile tracker and came out disappointed. Bluetooth…

heart broken in romance scam
30
Sep
2025

260 romance scammers and sextortionists caught in huge Interpol sting

Online crime of all kinds is deplorable, but there’s a special place in hell for romance scammers and sextortionists who…

Apple logo
30
Sep
2025

Apple fixes critical font processing bug. Update now!

Apple has released important security updates to address a critical vulnerability in FontParser—the part of MacOS/iOS/iPadOS that processes fonts. Identified…

Amazon Prime logo
29
Sep
2025

Amazon pays $2.5B settlement over deceptive Prime subscriptions

Another day, another settlement. Amazon has settled a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over misleading customers who…

RmoteCOM stalkerware
29
Sep
2025

Sex offenders, terrorists, drug dealers, exposed in spyware breach

We’ve covered spyware and stalkerware leaks many times before, but we don’t often see such exposure in software used by…

week in security
29
Sep
2025

A week in security (September 22 – September 28)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Stay safe! We don’t just report on scams—we help detect them Cybersecurity risks should never…

Kido nursery chain logo
26
Sep
2025

Hackers threaten parents: Get nursery to pay ransom or we leak your child’s data

Just when you think extortionists can’t sink any lower, along comes a lowlife that manages to surprise you. The BBC…

Logo for Flo app
26
Sep
2025

Google and Flo to pay $56 million after misusing users’ health data

Popular period-tracking app Flo Health shared users’ intimate health data—such as menstrual cycles and fertility information—with Google and Meta, allegedly…

Neon Mobile
26
Sep
2025

Neon App pays users to record their phone calls, sells data for AI training

TechCrunch reports about a “bizarre app” inviting you to record and share your audio calls so that it can sell the…