Category: MalwareBytes

Brightspeed logo
07
Jan
2026

One million customers on alert as extortion group claims massive Brightspeed data haul

US fiber broadband company Brightspeed is investigating claims by the Crimson Collective extortion group that it stole sensitive data belonging…

Google Cloud logo
06
Jan
2026

Phishing campaign abuses Google Cloud services to steal Microsoft 365 logins

Attackers are sending very convincing fake “Google” emails that slip past spam filters, route victims through several trusted Google-owned services,…

Disney
06
Jan
2026

Disney fined $10m for mislabeling kids’ YouTube videos and violating privacy law

Disney will pay a $10m settlement over allegations that it violated kids’ privacy rights, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said…

An illustrated padlock is mounted into a microphone stand with sound waves emitting from the device.
05
Jan
2026

ALPRs are recording your daily drive (Lock and Code S06E26)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… There’s an entire surveillance network popping up across the United States that…

Grok logo
05
Jan
2026

Grok apologizes for creating image of young girls in “sexualized attire”

Another AI system designed to be powerful and engaging ends up illustrating how guardrails routinely fail when development speed and…

week in security
05
Jan
2026

A week in security (December 29 – January 4)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Stay safe! We don’t just report on privacy—we offer you the option to use it….

convicted AI
02
Jan
2026

How AI made scams more convincing in 2025

This blog is part of a series where we highlight new or fast-evolving threats in consumer security. This one focuses…

VPN to view adult content
31
Dec
2025

In 2025, age checks started locking people out of the internet

If 2024 was the year lawmakers talked about online age verification, 2025 was the year they actually flipped the switch.​…

mishap coffee on laptop
30
Dec
2025

2025 exposed the risks we ignored while rushing AI

This blog is part of a series where we highlight new or fast-evolving threats in the consumer security landscape. This…

lots of devices
29
Dec
2025

Malware in 2025 spread far beyond Windows PCs

This blog is part of a series highlighting new and concerning trends we noticed over the last year. Trends matter…

week in security
29
Dec
2025

A week in security (December 22 – December 28)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Stay safe! We don’t just report on threats—we help safeguard your entire digital identity Cybersecurity…

Spotify logo
23
Dec
2025

Hacktivists claim near-total Spotify music scrape

Hacktivist group Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped almost all of Spotify’s catalog and is now seeding it via BitTorrent,…