Cardiac patients’ medical data stolen and held to ransom
Cardiac monitoring provider iRhythm has been hit by a data theft followed by an extortion attempt. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission…
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“Free World Cup stream” sites are serving scams, not football
With the World Cup on, you’ll find no shortage of websites promising every match, live, in HD, for free. They look convincing, usually with a…
Deepfake posting sites depicting famous women taken down by feds
Thanks to Uncle Sam, anyone trying to find nonconsensual intimate deepfakes on CFake.com and SOCFake.com will be disappointed. The US Departments of Justice (DOJ) and…
Inside a malicious infrastructure delivering EtherRAT, phishing pages, and malicious software
During our recent threat hunting activities, we found EtherRAT malware being distributed by a website with a strange homepage. This homepage allowed us to discover a vast malicious infrastructure…
Deepfake porn sites are going offline (re-air) (Lock and Code S07E12)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… If you weren’t taking deepfakes seriously before, it’s too late now to ignore them. According to new…
Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 “abruptly disabled” after US gov. ban
Anthropic has been ordered by the US government to cut off its newest Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for fear of abuse by…
A week in security (June 8 – June 14)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Stolen iPhones could soon be worth a lot less to thieves Fake verification pages are stealing Steam accounts from players…
Stolen iPhones could soon be worth a lot less to thieves
The UK’s Metropolitan Police has reached an agreement with Apple designed to make stolen iPhones harder to resell and less attractive to thieves. The approach…
Fake verification pages are stealing Steam accounts from players
Online gamers should watch out for a convincing scam that aims to steal your Steam account. The scam uses fake FACEIT verification pages that look…
Children’s phones must block nude images by September, UK says
Build something that doesn’t exist. Don’t collect any data while you do it. Get it wrong and the CEO could face criminal charges. That’s close…
Google can be liable for false AI Overviews, court rules
A German court has ruled that Google can be held directly responsible for defamatory claims produced by its AI Overviews. Basically, the court said that…
Data of 2.4 million VRChat users stolen
VRChat, Inc. has filed a data breach notice revealing that the information of more than 2.4 million users was involved in a data breach. According…