Lego’s Smart Bricks explained: what they do, and what they don’t
Lego just made what it claims is its most important product release since it introduced minifigures in 1978. No, it’s not yet another brand franchise.…
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Fake WinRAR downloads hide malware behind a real installer
A member of our web research team pointed me to a fake WinRAR installer that was linked from various Chinese websites. When these links start…
One million customers on alert as extortion group claims massive Brightspeed data haul
US fiber broadband company Brightspeed is investigating claims by the Crimson Collective extortion group that it stole sensitive data belonging to more than 1 million…
Phishing campaign abuses Google Cloud services to steal Microsoft 365 logins
Attackers are sending very convincing fake “Google” emails that slip past spam filters, route victims through several trusted Google-owned services, and ultimately lead to a…
Disney fined $10m for mislabeling kids’ YouTube videos and violating privacy law
Disney will pay a $10m settlement over allegations that it violated kids’ privacy rights, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said this week. The agreement, first…
ALPRs are recording your daily drive (Lock and Code S06E26)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… There’s an entire surveillance network popping up across the United States that has likely already captured your…
Grok apologizes for creating image of young girls in “sexualized attire”
Another AI system designed to be powerful and engaging ends up illustrating how guardrails routinely fail when development speed and feature races outrun safety controls.…
How AI made scams more convincing in 2025
This blog is part of a series where we highlight new or fast-evolving threats in consumer security. This one focuses on how AI is being…
In 2025, age checks started locking people out of the internet
If 2024 was the year lawmakers talked about online age verification, 2025 was the year they actually flipped the switch. In 2025, across parts of…
2025 exposed the risks we ignored while rushing AI
This blog is part of a series where we highlight new or fast-evolving threats in the consumer security landscape. This one looks at how the…
Malware in 2025 spread far beyond Windows PCs
This blog is part of a series highlighting new and concerning trends we noticed over the last year. Trends matter because they almost always provide…
Hacktivists claim near-total Spotify music scrape
Hacktivist group Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped almost all of Spotify’s catalog and is now seeding it via BitTorrent, effectively turning a streaming platform…