Category: MalwareBytes

function to define the ingredients
25
Sep
2025

New SVG-based phishing campaign is a recipe for disaster

We’ve written in the past about cybercriminals using SVG files for phishing and for clickjack campaigns. We found a new,…

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25
Sep
2025

LinkedIn will use your data to train its AI unless you opt out now

LinkedIn plans to share user data with Microsoft and its affiliates for AI training. Framed as “legitimate interest”, it won’t…

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25
Sep
2025

TikTok is misusing kids’ data, says privacy watchdog

A group of privacy commissioners in Canada have accused TikTok of scooping up information about hundreds of thousands of children…

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24
Sep
2025

Police using drones to read your license plates, warns EFF

Police are using drones as flying automated license plate readers (ALPRs), according to a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation…

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24
Sep
2025

Malwarebytes for Teams now includes VPN

Running a small business today can hardly be done from a single device, a single location, or a single network….

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24
Sep
2025

Fake Malwarebytes, LastPass, and others on GitHub serve malware

Fake versions of legitimate software are currently circulating on GitHub pages, in a large-scale campaign targeting Mac users. Unfortunately, Malwarebytes…

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23
Sep
2025

Can you disappear online? (Lock and Code S06E19)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast There’s more about you online than you know. The company Acxiom, for…

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23
Sep
2025

American Archive of Public Broadcasting allowed access to restricted media for years

A security flaw in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) website allowed unauthorized access to protected and private media,…

Scammers are impersonating the FBI to steal your personal data
23
Sep
2025

Scammers are impersonating the FBI to steal your personal data

Been scammed? Hoping to report it to the FBI? Definitely do so, but be careful. Spoofed versions of the FBI’s…

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22
Sep
2025

Beware of Zelle transfer scams

As we have said many times before, falling for a scam can happen to the best of us. And it…

CAPTCHA I'm not a robot
22
Sep
2025

ChatGPT solves CAPTCHAs if you tell it they’re fake

If you’re seeing fewer or different CAPTCHA puzzles in the near future, that’s not because website owners have agreed that…

week in security
22
Sep
2025

A week in security (September 15 – September 21)

September 19, 2025 – OpenAI has fixed a vulnerability in ChatGPT Deep Research after researchers found a prompt injection method…