Hims & Hers sued over alleged health data privacy failures
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), together with Utah and California, has filed a lawsuit against telehealth provider Hims & Hers. The FTC alleges that…
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Malwarebytes for Windows, now available on the Microsoft Store
When you’re setting up a new PC or looking for an app you already know, the Microsoft Store is often the easiest place to start.…
Hidden prompt turns Microsoft Copilot into an AI worm
A security researcher has demonstrated how Microsoft Copilot for Word can be tricked into spreading a self‑propagating prompt‑injection “AI worm.” The attack silently alters documents…
OpenAI explains how its AI agent breached Hugging Face
On July 28, OpenAI published an update on the agent that escaped its sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face during an internal cybersecurity evaluation. In…
Apple accused of letting fake crypto app steal $1.8 million
Apple’s tagline for its App Store says, “The apps you love. From a place you can trust.” You might love the apps, but can you…
Buying TikTok views or followers? Here’s what you’re really getting
A whole industry has sprung up around selling TikTok “growth.” Cheap views by the hundred, pre-made ad accounts, and polished sales pages promising a repeatable…
We found 120 fake Walmart stores trying to steal your credit card
Shoppers browsing on their phones are landing on convincing Walmart lookalike sites offering name-brand liquor at 40% to 70% off, only to be led straight…
Vatican’s Click To Pray app exposed personal data from 700,000 users
A prayer app launched by Pope Francis in 2019 contained a security flaw that exposed the personal information of hundreds of thousands of users before…
Update your iPhone, iPad and Mac to fix Apple security holes
Apple has shipped a hefty round of July security patches, headlined by iOS/iPadOS 26.6, macOS Tahoe 26.6, and Safari 26.6, with dozens of vulnerabilities squashed…
Shared Claude chats were searchable on Google
Reddit users found that by using a specific Google search query, it was possible to find Claude conversations that users had shared. This exposed sensitive…
We rebuilt Malwarebytes Mobile Security for the scams of today
Nearly half of people encounter a scam on their phone every single day. Malwarebytes is doing something about it. That figure comes from a…
What’s your data worth on the dark web? (Lock and Code S07E15)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Twenty years ago, a British mathematician named Clive Humby popularized a phrase that came to describe data’s…