5 riskiest places to get scammed online
Scammers love your smartphone. They can text you fraudulent tracking links for packages you never bought. They can profess their empty love to you across…
Category: MalwareBytes
Scammers hijack websites of Bank of America, Netflix, Microsoft, and more to insert fake phone number
The examples in this post are actual fraud attempts found by Malwarebytes Senior Director of Research, Jérôme Segura. Cybercriminals frequently use fake search engine listings…
WhatsApp to start targeting you with ads
WhatsApp has announced that it will start to show you targeted ads on the app. The ads, it says, will appear under the Updates tab.…
Reddit’s new AI-powered tools scan your posts to serve you better ads
Reddit has introduced two Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools which will use Reddit comments, posts, and conversations to help sellers make the most of the community.…
Smart air fryers ordered to stop invading our digital privacy
In a confirmation that we’ve gone full Black Mirror, the UK’s privacy czar has wagged a finger at air fryer manufacturers and told them to…
The data on denying social media for kids (re-air) (Lock and Code S06E12)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Complex problems often assume complex solutions, but recent observations about increased levels of anxiety and depression, increased…
Your Meta AI chats might be public, and it’s not a bug
Conversations that people are having with the Meta AI app are being exposed publicly, often without the users realizing it, revealing a variety of medical,…
US airline industry quietly selling flight data to DHS
A data broker owned by some of America’s biggest airlines has been selling access to customer flight data to the US Department of Homeland Security…
23andMe raked by Congress on privacy, sale of genetic data
In a Senate hearing adequately titled “23 and You: The Privacy and National Security Implications of the 23andMe Bankruptcy,” 23andMe executives addressed concerns about the…
GirlsDoPorn owner faces life in jail after pleading guilty to sex trafficking
Michael James Pratt, the owner of pornographic websites GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys, has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking in a US court. Pratt ran the websites,…
Google bug allowed phone number of almost any user to be discovered
Google has fixed vulnerabilities that made it possible to retrieve the phone numbers of almost any Google user. The flaw was found in the flow…
44% of people encounter a mobile scam every single day, Malwarebytes finds
It’s become so troublesome owning a phone. Malicious texts pose as package delivery notifications, phishing emails impersonate trusted brands, and unknown calls hide extortion attempts,…