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…
Category: MalwareBytes
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…
New SVG-based phishing campaign is a recipe for disaster
We’ve written in the past about cybercriminals using SVG files for phishing and for clickjack campaigns. We found a new, rather sophisticated example of an…
LinkedIn will use your data to train its AI unless you opt out now
LinkedIn plans to share user data with Microsoft and its affiliates for AI training. Framed as “legitimate interest”, it won’t ask for your permission—instead you’ll…
TikTok is misusing kids’ data, says privacy watchdog
A group of privacy commissioners in Canada have accused TikTok of scooping up information about hundreds of thousands of children who shouldn’t have been on…
Police using drones to read your license plates, warns EFF
Police are using drones as flying automated license plate readers (ALPRs), according to a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). And where there is…
Malwarebytes for Teams now includes VPN
Running a small business today can hardly be done from a single device, a single location, or a single network. Staying cybersecure is quite the…
Fake Malwarebytes, LastPass, and others on GitHub serve malware
Fake versions of legitimate software are currently circulating on GitHub pages, in a large-scale campaign targeting Mac users. Unfortunately, Malwarebytes for Mac is one of…
Can you disappear online? (Lock and Code S06E19)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast There’s more about you online than you know. The company Acxiom, for example, has probably determined whether…