Your Meta AI conversations may come back as ads in your feed
Meta has announced that conversations with its AI assistant will soon be used for targeted advertising. If you’re the kind of person that notices ads…
Category: MalwareBytes
Scam Facebook groups send malicious Android malware to seniors
An infostealer and banking Trojan rolled into one is making the rounds in Facebook groups aimed at “active seniors”. Attackers used social engineering methods to…
Sendit tricked kids, harvested their data, and faked messages, FTC claims
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued Sendit’s parent company, saying it signed up children under 13, collected their personal data, and misled them with…
Gemini AI flaws could have exposed your data
Security researchers discovered three vulnerabilities in Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. Although now patched, this “Trifecta”, as the researchers called it, raises important questions…
Tile trackers plagued by weak security, researchers warn
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology scrutinized the security of the popular Tile tracker and came out disappointed. Bluetooth trackers are a steadily growing…
260 romance scammers and sextortionists caught in huge Interpol sting
Online crime of all kinds is deplorable, but there’s a special place in hell for romance scammers and sextortionists who target the most vulnerable victims.…
Apple fixes critical font processing bug. Update now!
Apple has released important security updates to address a critical vulnerability in FontParser—the part of MacOS/iOS/iPadOS that processes fonts. Identified as CVE-2025-43400, the flaw was…
Amazon pays $2.5B settlement over deceptive Prime subscriptions
Another day, another settlement. Amazon has settled a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over misleading customers who signed up for Amazon Prime—though…
Sex offenders, terrorists, drug dealers, exposed in spyware breach
We’ve covered spyware and stalkerware leaks many times before, but we don’t often see such exposure in software used by law enforcement. According to a…
Hackers threaten parents: Get nursery to pay ransom or we leak your child’s data
Just when you think extortionists can’t sink any lower, along comes a lowlife that manages to surprise you. The BBC reported that a group calling…
Google and Flo to pay $56 million after misusing users’ health data
Popular period-tracking app Flo Health shared users’ intimate health data—such as menstrual cycles and fertility information—with Google and Meta, allegedly for targeted advertising purposes, according…
Neon App pays users to record their phone calls, sells data for AI training
TechCrunch reports about a “bizarre app” inviting you to record and share your audio calls so that it can sell the data to AI companies. And…