Category: MalwareBytes

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07
Jan
2024

Police investigate sexual assault on an avatar

British police are investigating a case involving a virtual sexual assault of a girl’s avatar. Even though there was no…

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07
Jan
2024

How AI hallucinations are making bug hunting harder

Bug bounty programs that pay people for finding bugs are a very useful tool for improving the security of software….

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04
Jan
2024

Facebook introduces another way to track you – Link History

In what seems like yet another attempt to adapt its platform to prepare for new regulations, Facebook has started rolling…

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04
Jan
2024

23andMe blames “negligent” breach victims, says it’s their own fault

In a surprising move, in a letter to legal representatives of victims of the recent 23andMe data breach, the company…

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03
Jan
2024

Investment fraud a serious money maker for criminals

Europols’s spotlight report ‘Online fraud schemes: a web of deceit’, looks into online fraud schemes—a major crime threat in the…

social engineering
03
Jan
2024

Microsoft disables ms-appinstaller after malicious use

In what might be conceived as one of Microsoft’s new year resolutions, it has disclosed that it’s turned off the…

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02
Jan
2024

Oops! Black Basta ransomware flubs encryption

Researchers at SRLabs have made a decryption tool available for Black Basta ransomware, allowing some victims of the group to…

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02
Jan
2024

DNA data deserves better, with Suzanne Bernstein: Lock and Code S05E01

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Hackers want to know everything about you: Your credit card number, your…

week in security
01
Jan
2024

A week in security (December 25 – December 31)

December 29, 2023 – Ransomware gangs don’t always win, and when they don’t, it feels pretty great. December 27, 2023…

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29
Dec
2023

The top 4 ransomware gang failures of 2023

Ransomware gangs care about one thing: Stealing money. Over time, their craven, cybercriminal efforts have toppled businesses, destabilized hospitals, and…

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28
Dec
2023

4 sneaky scams from 2023

In 2023, the public primarily confronted two varieties of online scams: the technical and the topical. Technical scams abuse legitimate…

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27
Dec
2023

How ransomware operators try to stay under the radar

An often heard remark is that when your security solution notices a ransomware attack, it’s already too late. There’s a…