Would you give a complete stranger your credit card in return for the promise of easy money? No, neither would we. But apparently well over a hundred people did. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested 24 year-old Janetcilize Martinez in Tampa, FL, for allegedly using willing participants’ bank accounts to commit fraud. Police are calling this […]
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Receiving an unexpected package in the post is not always a pleasant surprise. The FBI has warned the public about unsolicited packages containing a QR code which leads to a website aimed at stealing personal data or downloading malware to the victim’s device. The packages are often shipped without sender information, only the QR code.
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Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Apple ID scam leads to $27,000 in-person theft of Ohio man OpenAI kills “short-lived experiment” where ChatGPT chats could be found on Google Trump Administration and Big Tech want you to share your health data Prison visitor details shared with all inmates at correctional facility That seemingly innocent text is
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You’ve probably heard about people scamming from halfway around the world, but sometimes they turn up at your door. That’s what happened in May, when 67 year-old Robert Wise of Ohio received a text telling him that his Apple ID had been compromised. It had been used at an Apple store for a $213 purchase,
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A little-known ChatGPT “feature” is now gone. It could be a good thing. On X, OpenAI Chief Information Security Officer Dane Stuckey announced that OpenAI “removed a feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their conversations discoverable by search engines, such as Google.” Stuckey called the whole thing a “short-lived experiment to help people
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US President Donald Trump announced a loose plan Wednesday to allow Americans to voluntarily upload and port their medical records across hospitals, clinics, technology companies, and health apps, with broad participation from Google, Apple, OpenAI, Amazon, and more. While the system could help Americans connect disparate pieces of health data currently siloed behind separate companies
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The Everglades Correctional Institution (ECI) in Miami-Dade County has leaked the names, email addresses, and telephone numbers of visitors to the facility to every inmate. The inmates received an email last week sent by a staff member that included the personal information of the visitors. Inmates can access their emails through secure tablets or kiosks
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A special thanks to all the people at Malwarebytes and ThreatDown for sharing the text messages they received from scammers. Many of us have received texts like these. Often super short, some flirty, some with a business tone, or sometimes just a simple ‘hello.’ You don’t know the sender, and they look like an honest
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As the UK’s Online Safety Act came into effect on Friday—along with its age verification controls—the use of virtual private network (VPN) services has skyrocketed by up to 20-fold across the region. Top10VPN, which monitors VPN traffic around the world, spotted UK VPN traffic spiking 1,327% on July 25, compared to the daily average over
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Apple released a security update for iOS and iPadOS to patch multiple vulnerabilities, including one that could leak sensitive information when visiting a malicious website and one that allows an attacker to display false information in the address bar. In total, 29 vulnerabilities were patched, most of them in WebKit, Apple’s web rendering engine that
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