Category: MalwareBytes

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11
Feb
2026

Malwarebytes earns PCMag Best Tech Brand spot, scores 100% with MRG Effitas 

Malwarebytes is on a roll.  Recently named one of PCMag’s “Best Tech Brands for 2026,” Malwarebytes also scored 100% on…

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Image of Discord logo on a user's phone
10
Feb
2026

Discord will limit profiles to teen-appropriate mode until you verify your age

Discord announced it will put all existing and new profiles in teen-appropriate mode by default in early March. The teen-appropriate…

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Research into online child accounts
10
Feb
2026

How safe are kids using social media? We did the groundwork

When researchers created an account for a child under 13 on Roblox, they expected heavy guardrails. Instead, they found that…

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Man tricked hundreds of women into handing over Snapchat security codes
10
Feb
2026

Man tricked hundreds of women into handing over Snapchat security codes

Fresh off a breathless Super Bowl Sunday, we’re less thrilled to bring you this week’s Weirdo Wednesday. Two stories caught…

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Winzipper Trojan dropper
10
Feb
2026

Fake 7-Zip downloads are turning home PCs into proxy nodes

A convincing lookalike of the popular 7-Zip archiver site has been serving a trojanized installer that silently converts victims’ machines…

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chat AI data exposed
10
Feb
2026

AI chat app leak exposes 300 million messages tied to 25 million users

An independent security researcher uncovered a major data breach affecting Chat & Ask AI, one of the most popular AI…

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An illustrated padlock is mounted into a microphone stand with sound waves emitting from the device.
10
Feb
2026

Is your phone listening to you? (re-air) (Lock and Code S07E03)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… In January, Google settled a lawsuit that pricked up a few ears:…

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week in security
09
Feb
2026

A week in security (February 2 – February 8)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Apple Pay phish uses fake support calls to steal payment details Open the wrong “PDF”…

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Apple Pay logo
06
Feb
2026

Apple Pay phish uses fake support calls to steal payment details

It started with an email that looked boringly familiar: Apple logo, a clean layout, and a subject line designed to…

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PDF and RAT
05
Feb
2026

Open the wrong “PDF” and attackers gain remote access to your PC

Cybercriminals behind a campaign dubbed DEAD#VAX are taking phishing one step further by delivering malware inside virtual hard disks that…

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Flock cameras shared license plate data without permission
05
Feb
2026

Flock cameras shared license plate data without permission

Mountain View, California, pulled the plug on its entire license plate reader camera network this week. It discovered that Flock…

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Grok deepfake
04
Feb
2026

Grok continues producing sexualized images after promised fixes

Journalists decided to test whether the Grok chatbot still generates non‑consensual sexualized images, even after xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence…

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