Category: MalwareBytes

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30
Jun
2025

Corpse-eating selfies, and other ways to trick scammers (Lock and Code S06E14)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… There’s a unique counter response to romance scammers. Her name is Becky…

AT&T logo
30
Jun
2025

AT&T to pay compensation to data breach victims. Here’s how to check if you were affected

AT&T is set to pay $177 million to customers affected by two significant data breaches. These breaches exposed sensitive personal information of…

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30
Jun
2025

Android threats rise sharply, with mobile malware jumping by 151% since start of year

The Android threat landscape in the first half of 2025 has entered a new phase. An era marked not just…

week in security
30
Jun
2025

A week in security (June 23 – June 29)

June 27, 2025 – An invitation to sign a DocuSign document went through mysterious ways and a way-too-easy Captcha to…

how to docusign
27
Jun
2025

Fake DocuSign email hides tricky phishing attempt

On my daily rounds, I encountered a phishing attempt that used a not completely unusual, yet clever delivery method. What…

jailbroken
26
Jun
2025

Jailbroken AIs are helping cybercriminals to hone their craft

Cybercriminals are bypassing the guardrails that are supposed to keep AI models from carrying out criminal activities, according to researchers….

A man sitting at his desk is annoyed about a phone call he is receiving before answering it
26
Jun
2025

Why the Do Not Call Registry doesn’t work

The “Do Not Call Registry” receives a lot of hate online for failing to do its job: Stop calls. “What’s…

facial recognition
26
Jun
2025

Facial recognition: Where and how you can opt out

Our remote team recently took a trip to our Estonian office. When we arrived from our various destinations, we started…

data brokers have lots of location data
25
Jun
2025

Many data brokers are failing to register with state consumer protection agencies

Hundreds of data brokers haven’t registered with state consumer protection agencies, according to The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Privacy Rights…

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25
Jun
2025

Sextortion email scammers increase their “Hello pervert” money demands

Every so often the sextortion emails that start with “Hello pervert” get a redesign. You may have received one yourself:…

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25
Jun
2025

Thousands of private camera feeds found online. Make sure yours isn’t one of them

If you have internet-connected cameras in or around your home, be sure to check their settings. Researchers just discovered 40,000…

Google Gmail app password
23
Jun
2025

Gmail’s multi-factor authentication bypassed by hackers to pull off targeted attacks

Russian hackers have bypassed Google’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) in Gmail to pull off targeted attacks, according to security researchers at…