Category: MalwareBytes

week in security
23
Jun
2025

A week in security (June 15 – June 21)

June 19, 2025 – Researchers have uncovered 30 exposed data sets containing over 16 billion login credentials which were likely…

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19
Jun
2025

Mattel’s going to make AI-powered toys, kids’ rights advocates are worried

Toy company Mattel has announced a deal with OpenAI to create AI-powered toys, but digital rights advocates have urged caution….

16 billion credentials are an impressive mountain
19
Jun
2025

Billions of logins for Apple, Google, Facebook, Telegram, and more found exposed online

When organizations, good or bad, start hoarding collections of login credentials the numbers quickly add up. Take the 184 million…

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18
Jun
2025

Fake bank ads on Instagram scam victims out of money

Ads on Instagram—including deepfake videos—are impersonating trusted financial institutions like Bank of Montreal (BMO) and EQ Bank (Equitable Bank) in…

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18
Jun
2025

5 riskiest places to get scammed online

Scammers love your smartphone. They can text you fraudulent tracking links for packages you never bought. They can profess their…

24/7 Tech Support Scam
18
Jun
2025

Scammers hijack websites of Bank of America, Netflix, Microsoft, and more to insert fake phone number

The examples in this post are actual fraud attempts found by Malwarebytes Senior Director of Research, Jérôme Segura. Cybercriminals frequently…

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17
Jun
2025

WhatsApp to start targeting you with ads

WhatsApp has announced that it will start to show you targeted ads on the app. The ads, it says, will…

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17
Jun
2025

Reddit’s new AI-powered tools scan your posts to serve you better ads

Reddit has introduced two Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools which will use Reddit comments, posts, and conversations to help sellers make…

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17
Jun
2025

Smart air fryers ordered to stop invading our digital privacy

In a confirmation that we’ve gone full Black Mirror, the UK’s privacy czar has wagged a finger at air fryer…

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16
Jun
2025

The data on denying social media for kids (re-air) (Lock and Code S06E12)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Complex problems often assume complex solutions, but recent observations about increased levels…

week in security
16
Jun
2025

A week in security (June 9 – June 15)

June 13, 2025 – Users of the Meta AI seem to be sharing their sensitive conversations with the entire world…

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13
Jun
2025

Your Meta AI chats might be public, and it’s not a bug

Conversations that people are having with the Meta AI app are being exposed publicly, often without the users realizing it,…