Category: MalwareBytes

Google Gmail app password
19
Aug
2025

How to spot the latest fake Gmail security alerts

Security alerts from tech companies are supposed to warn us when something might be amiss—but what if the alerts themselves…

Instagram logo
18
Aug
2025

Instagram Map: What is it and how do I control it?

Instagram Map is a new feature—for Instagram, anyway—that users may have enabled without being fully aware of the consequences. The…

week in security
18
Aug
2025

A week in security (August 11 – August 17)

August 15, 2025 – A cybercriminal was found selling scanned IDs that were stolen from guests at Italian hotels on…

Italian hotel bell
15
Aug
2025

Italian hotels breached for tens of thousands of scanned IDs

The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) for Italy’s “Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale” (AGID) issued a warning that cybercriminals are selling…

National Public data may have leaked your social secuirty number
15
Aug
2025

National Public Data returns after massive Social Security Number leak

Remember that data broker nobody had ever heard of, but managed to leak a database which contained the data of…

heart broken in romance scam
14
Aug
2025

Romance scammers in Ghana charged with more than $100 million in theft

The Department of Justice (DOJ) extradited and indicted 4 Ghanaian nationals for allegedly stealing more than $100 million, mainly through…

Netflix job offers are phishing
14
Aug
2025

Netflix scammers target jobseekers to trick them into handing over their Facebook logins

In what seems a phishing attack targeted at a certain audience, scammers are impersonating Netflix and reaching out to marketing…

A digitally rendered gavel is splintering into different data points and nodes.
14
Aug
2025

Russians hacked US courts, say investigators

Russia is after secret files in the US court system, according to reports this week—and its hackers appear to have…

Microsoft
13
Aug
2025

Microsoft patches some very important vulnerabilities in August’s patch Tuesday

In the August 2025 patch Tuesday round Microsoft fixed a total of 111 Microsoft vulnerabilities. A few of them are…

WinRAR logo
12
Aug
2025

WinRAR vulnerability exploited by two different groups

On July 30, 2025, WinRAR released a new version (7.13 Final) to patch a vulnerability which was used in two…

A letter from HMRC is laid flat on a table with English pound coins scattered across.
12
Aug
2025

Scam hunter scammed by tax office impersonators

The next time you shake your head at another online scam and vow that you’d never fall for it, remember…

Amazon pick-up location
12
Aug
2025

That “Amazon Safety Recall” message may well be a scam

Scammers are using the age old tactic of scaring victims into clicking by sending out fake product recall messages from…