Watch out for tech support scams lurking in sponsored search results
This blog post was written based on research carried out by Jérôme Segura. A campaign using sponsored search results is targeting home users and taking…
Category: MalwareBytes
Psychotherapy practice hacker gets jail time after extorting patients, publishing personal therapy notes online
On October 30, 2020, I started a article with the words: “Hell is too nice a place for these people.” The subject of this outrage…
Wireless carriers fined $200 million after illegally sharing customer location data
After four years of investigation, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has concluded that four of the major wireless carriers in the US violated the law…
Malwarebytes Premium Security earns “Product of the Year” from AVLab
After blocking 100% of “in-the-wild” malware samples that were deployed in multiple, consecutive third-party tests conducted by the AVLab Cybersecurity Foundation, Malwarebytes Premium Security has…
FBI warns online daters to avoid “free” online verification schemes that prove costly
The FBI has warned of fraudsters targeting users of dating websites and apps with “free” online verification service schemes that turn out to be very…
Kaiser health insurance leaked patient data to advertisers
Health insurance giant Kaiser has announced it will notify millions of patients about a data breach after sharing patients’ data with advertisers. Kaiser said that…
Ring agrees to pay $5.6 million after cameras were used to spy on customers
Amazon’s Ring has settled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over charges that the company allowed employees and contractors to access customers’ private videos, and…
TikTok comes one step closer to a US ban
The US Senate has approved a bill that would effectively ban TikTok from the US unless Chinese owner ByteDance gives up its share of the immensely popular…
Google ad for Facebook redirects to scam
Today, we are looking at a malicious ad campaign targeting Facebook users via Google search. It is well-known that tech support scammers attract new victims…
“Substantial proportion” of Americans may have had health and personal data stolen in Change Healthcare breach
UnitedHealth Group has given an update on the February cyberattack on Change Healthcare, one of its subsidiaries. In the update, the company revealed the scale…
Picking fights and gaining rights, with Justin Brookman: Lock and Code S05E09
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Our Lock and Code host, David Ruiz, has a bit of an apology to make: “Sorry for…
Billions of scraped Discord messages up for sale
Four billions public Discord messages are for sale on an internet scraping service called Spy.pet. At first sight there doesn’t seem to be much that…