We found 120 fake Walmart stores trying to steal your credit card
Shoppers browsing on their phones are landing on convincing Walmart lookalike sites offering name-brand liquor at 40% to 70% off, only to be led straight…
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Vatican’s Click To Pray app exposed personal data from 700,000 users
A prayer app launched by Pope Francis in 2019 contained a security flaw that exposed the personal information of hundreds of thousands of users before…
Update your iPhone, iPad and Mac to fix Apple security holes
Apple has shipped a hefty round of July security patches, headlined by iOS/iPadOS 26.6, macOS Tahoe 26.6, and Safari 26.6, with dozens of vulnerabilities squashed…
Shared Claude chats were searchable on Google
Reddit users found that by using a specific Google search query, it was possible to find Claude conversations that users had shared. This exposed sensitive…
We rebuilt Malwarebytes Mobile Security for the scams of today
Nearly half of people encounter a scam on their phone every single day. Malwarebytes is doing something about it. That figure comes from a…
What’s your data worth on the dark web? (Lock and Code S07E15)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Twenty years ago, a British mathematician named Clive Humby popularized a phrase that came to describe data’s…
Sextortion scammers are exploiting ShinyHunters data leaks
Sextortion scammers are using email addresses from data leaked by the ShinyHunters hacking group to add some credibility to their feeble attempts to convince people…
Aftercall ads are driving Android users crazy
Aftercall is a wave of deceptive Android apps on Google Play that pose as everyday tools while bombarding users with pop-up ads after every phone…
A week in security (July 20 – July 26)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Stay safe! Scammers know more about you than you think. Malwarebytes Mobile Security protects you from phishing, scam texts, malicious sites, and…
Beyond the Play Store: How Android threats really spread
You probably think of your phone’s security the way you think of your front door: as long as you’re downloading apps from the Play Store,…
Google wants to store a selfie video of your face
Google has started rolling out a new way to recover access to your account if you’ve lost your phone or forgotten your password: a “selfie…
OpenAI’s agent escaped its sandbox during a security test
During an internal OpenAI security evaluation, a chain of AI models escaped its sandbox, reached the internet, and then accessed Hugging Face infrastructure to complete…