Category: MalwareBytes

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01
Aug
2025

How the FBI got everything it wanted (re-air) (Lock and Code S06E15)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… For decades, digital rights activists, technologists, and cybersecurity experts have worried about…

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01
Aug
2025

VPN use rises following Online Safety Act’s age verification controls

As the UK’s Online Safety Act came into effect on Friday—along with its age verification controls—the use of virtual private…

ChatGPT
01
Aug
2025

OpenAI kills “short-lived experiment” where ChatGPT chats could be found on Google

A little-known ChatGPT “feature” is now gone. It could be a good thing. On X, OpenAI Chief Information Security Officer…

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31
Jul
2025

Trump Administration and Big Tech want you to share your health data

US President Donald Trump announced a loose plan Wednesday to allow Americans to voluntarily upload and port their medical records…

Hands on jail bars
31
Jul
2025

Prison visitor details shared with all inmates at correctional facility

The Everglades Correctional Institution (ECI) in Miami-Dade County has leaked the names, email addresses, and telephone numbers of visitors to…

Who is this; wrong number
31
Jul
2025

That seemingly innocent text is probably a scam

A special thanks to all the people at Malwarebytes and ThreatDown for sharing the text messages they received from scammers….

The letters XXX repeated on a computer keyboard
31
Jul
2025

VPN use rises following Online Safety Act’s age verification controls

As the UK’s Online Safety Act came into effect on Friday—along with its age verification controls—the use of virtual private…

patched Apple
30
Jul
2025

Apple patches multiple vulnerabilities in iOS and iPadOS. Update now!

Apple released a security update for iOS and iPadOS to patch multiple vulnerabilities, including one that could leak sensitive information…

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29
Jul
2025

Tea Dating Advice app has users’ private messages disclosed

A few days after Tea Dating Advice discovered unauthorized access to one of its systems that leaked 72,000 user images,…

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29
Jul
2025

Allianz Life says majority of 1.4 million US customers’ info breached

Insurance company Allianz Life was breached, exposing the data of most of its 1.4 million American customers. According to Allianz,…

The Lock and Code logo, which includes the Malwarebytes Labs insignia ensconced in a pair of headphones
29
Jul
2025

How the FBI got everything it wanted (re-air) (Lock and Code S06E15)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… For decades, digital rights activists, technologists, and cybersecurity experts have worried about…

week in security
28
Jul
2025

A week in security (July 21 – July 27)

July 25, 2025 – A cybercriminal managed to insert malicious files leading to info stealers in a pre-release of a…