Category: MalwareBytes

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02
May
2024

Watch out for tech support scams lurking in sponsored search results

This blog post was written based on research carried out by Jérôme Segura. A campaign using sponsored search results is…

Psychotherapy practice hacker gets jail time after extorting patients, publishing personal therapy notes online
02
May
2024

Psychotherapy practice hacker gets jail time after extorting patients, publishing personal therapy notes online

On October 30, 2020, I started a article with the words: “Hell is too nice a place for these people.”…

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01
May
2024

Wireless carriers fined $200 million after illegally sharing customer location data

After four years of investigation, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has concluded that four of the major wireless carriers in…

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30
Apr
2024

Malwarebytes Premium Security earns “Product of the Year” from AVLab

After blocking 100% of “in-the-wild” malware samples that were deployed in multiple, consecutive third-party tests conducted by the AVLab Cybersecurity…

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30
Apr
2024

FBI warns online daters to avoid “free” online verification schemes that prove costly

The FBI has warned of fraudsters targeting users of dating websites and apps with “free” online verification service schemes that…

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29
Apr
2024

Kaiser health insurance leaked patient data to advertisers

Health insurance giant Kaiser has announced it will notify millions of patients about a data breach after sharing patients’ data…

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29
Apr
2024

A week in security (April 22 – April 28)

April 24, 2024 – The US Senate has approved a bill that will ban TikTok, unless it finds a new…

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25
Apr
2024

Ring agrees to pay $5.6 million after cameras were used to spy on customers

Amazon’s Ring has settled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over charges that the company allowed employees and contractors to…

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24
Apr
2024

TikTok comes one step closer to a US ban

The US Senate has approved a bill that would effectively ban TikTok from the US unless Chinese owner ByteDance gives up its…

Fake Rihanna Tape Leads to Survey Scam
24
Apr
2024

Google ad for Facebook redirects to scam

Today, we are looking at a malicious ad campaign targeting Facebook users via Google search. It is well-known that tech…

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23
Apr
2024

“Substantial proportion” of Americans may have had health and personal data stolen in Change Healthcare breach

UnitedHealth Group has given an update on the February cyberattack on Change Healthcare, one of its subsidiaries. In the update,…

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22
Apr
2024

Picking fights and gaining rights, with Justin Brookman: Lock and Code S05E09

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Our Lock and Code host, David Ruiz, has a bit of an…