Category: MalwareBytes

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22
Jul
2025

‘Car crash victim’ calls mother for help and $15K bail money. But it’s an AI voice scam

A woman in Florida was tricked into giving thousands of dollars to a scammer after her daughter’s voice was AI-cloned…

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21
Jul
2025

“Ring cameras hacked”? Amazon says no, users not so sure

In the last week, countless Amazon Ring users on TikTok, Reddit, and X have been saying they believe their Ring…

week in security
21
Jul
2025

A week in security (July 14 – July 20)

July 18, 2025 – Meta executives settled a shareholders’ lawsuit alleging continuous disregard of privacy regulations for the price of…

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18
Jul
2025

Meta execs pay the pain away with $8 billion privacy settlement

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and several other members of the social media giant’s top brass agreed to settle increasingly heated…

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17
Jul
2025

Meta AI chatbot bug could have allowed anyone to see private conversations

A researcher has disclosed to TechCrunch that he received a $10,000 bounty for reporting a bug that let anyone access…

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17
Jul
2025

Adoption agency leaks over a million records

Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a publicly accessible database online that contained highly personal information from an adoption agency. Jeremiah,…

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17
Jul
2025

WeTransfer walks back clause that said it would train AI on your files

File sharing site WeTransfer has rolled back language that allowed it to train machine learning models on any files that…

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17
Jul
2025

Chrome fixes 6 security vulnerabilities. Get the update now!

Google has released an update for its Chrome browser to patch six security vulnerabilities, including one zero-day. This update is crucial since…

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16
Jul
2025

Dating app scammer cons former US army colonel into leaking national secrets

Even hard-headed military types can fall victim to romance scams, it seems. A former US army colonel faces up to…

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16
Jul
2025

Amazon warns 200 million Prime customers that scammers are after their login info

Amazon has sent out an alert to its 200 million customers, warning them that scammers are impersonating Amazon in a…

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14
Jul
2025

Is AI “healthy” to use? (Lock and Code S06E14)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… “Health” isn’t the first feature that most anyone thinks about when trying…

fake news websites lead to investment scams
14
Jul
2025

CNN, BBC, and CNBC websites impersonated to scam people

Researchers have uncovered a large campaign impersonating news websites, such as those from CNN, BBC, CNBC, News24, and ABC News,…