Category: MalwareBytes

sessionreaper at work
23
Oct
2025

Thousands of online stores at risk as SessionReaper attacks spread

Early September, a security researcher uncovered a new vulnerability in Magento, an open-source e-commerce platform used by thousands of online…

App Store on iPhone
23
Oct
2025

Apple may have to open its walled garden to outside app stores

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) ruled that both Google and Apple have a “strategic market status.” Basically, they…

Meta logo
23
Oct
2025

Meta boosts scam protection on WhatsApp and Messenger

Vulnerable Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp users are getting more protection thanks to a move from the applications’ owner, Meta. The…

spamware
22
Oct
2025

Over 100 Chrome extensions break WhatsApp’s anti-spam rules

Recent research by Socket’s Threat Research Team uncovered a massive, coordinated campaign flooding the Chrome Web Store with 131 spamware…

Zero-click Dolby audio bug lets attackers run code on Android and Windows devices
22
Oct
2025

Zero-click Dolby audio bug lets attackers run code on Android and Windows devices

Researchers from Google’s Project Zero discovered a medium-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that affects multiple platforms, including Android (Samsung and Pixel devices) and Windows….

A man looking at s Windows 11 logo on a computer screen
21
Oct
2025

Windows update breaks USB support in recovery mode

We usually tell our faithful readers to install updates as soon as possible, but this time there’s an exception. Microsoft’s…

poison
21
Oct
2025

You can poison AI with just 250 dodgy documents

Researchers have shown how you can corrupt an AI and make it talk gibberish by tampering with just 250 documents….

Home Depot logo
21
Oct
2025

Home Depot Halloween phish gives users a fright, not a freebie

We received a timely phishing email pretending to come from Home Depot. It claimed we’d won a Gorilla Carts dump…

An illustrated padlock is mounted into a microphone stand with sound waves emitting from the device.
20
Oct
2025

What does Google know about me? (Lock and Code S06E21)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Google is everywhere in our lives. It’s reach into our data extends…

An illustrated padlock is mounted into a microphone stand with sound waves emitting from the device.
20
Oct
2025

What does Google know about me? (Lock and Code S06E21)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Google is everywhere in our lives. It’s reach into our data extends…

Project Red Hook investigates scam texts
20
Oct
2025

Chinese gangs made over $1 billion targeting Americans with scam texts

We regularly warn our readers about new scams and phishing texts. Almost everyone gets pestered with these messages. But where…

week in security
20
Oct
2025

A week in security (October 13 – October 19)

October 17, 2025 – While Prosper says no funds or accounts were accessed, the stolen data could lead to targeted…