Category: MalwareBytes

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…

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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…

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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…

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…

drone over highway
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,…