A suicide reveals the lonely side of AI chatbots, with Courtney Brown (Lock and Code S06E03)
Today on the Lock and Code podcast… In February 2024, a 14-year-old boy from Orlando, Florida, committed suicide after confessing his love to the one…
Category: MalwareBytes
20 Million OpenAI accounts offered for sale
A cybercriminal acting under the monicker “emirking” offered 20 million OpenAI user login credentials this week, sharing what appeared to be samples of the stolen…
New scams could abuse brief USPS suspension of inbound packages from China, Hong Kong
I would be the last one to provide scammers with good ideas, but as a security provider, sometimes we need to think like criminals to…
University site cloned to evade ad detection distributes fake Cisco installer
There is a constant “cat and mouse” game between defenders and attackers, the latter trying to outsmart and get a head start on the former.…
Small business owners, secure your web shop
An online shop is more than just another way to sell your products. It comes with a responsibility to keep the web shop secure. Cybercriminals…
New AI “agents” could hold people for ransom in 2025
A paradigm shift in technology is hurtling towards us, and it could change everything we know about cybersecurity. Uhh, again, that is. When ChatGPT was…
Valley News Live exposed more than a million job seeker’s resumes
Making your own bad news is not what Valley News Live had in mind, but negligence comes at a price. Cybernews researchers found an unprotected…
WhatsApp says Paragon is spying on specific users
WhatsApp has accused the professional spyware company Paragon of spying on a select group of users. WhatsApp, the Meta-owned, end-to-end encrypted messaging platform, said it…
ClickFix vs. traditional download in new DarkGate campaign
During the past several months there have been numerous malware campaigns that use a technique something referred to as “ClickFix”. It often consists of a…
Cybercrime gets a few punches on the nose
It’s not often that we get to share good news, so we wanted to grab this opportunity and showcase some progress made by law enforcement…
Microsoft advertisers phished via malicious Google ads
Just days after we uncovered a campaign targeting Google Ads accounts, a similar attack has surfaced, this time aimed at Microsoft advertisers. These malicious ads,…
The DeepSeek controversy: Authorities ask where does the data come from and how safe is it?
The sudden rise of DeepSeek has raised concerns and questions, especially about the origin and destination of the training data, as well as the security…