This week on the Lock and Code podcast… There’s a unique counter response to romance scammers. Her name is Becky Holmes. Holmes, an expert and author on romance scams, has spent years responding to nearly every romance scammer who lands a message in her inbox. She told one scammer pretending to be Brad Pitt that […]
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AT&T is set to pay $177 million to customers affected by two significant data breaches. These breaches exposed sensitive personal information of millions of current and former AT&T customers. For those that have missed the story so far: Back in 2021, an entity named Shiny Hunters (a known hacking group) claimed to have breached AT&T. Later reports indicated
The Android threat landscape in the first half of 2025 has entered a new phase. An era marked not just by volume, but by coordination and precision. Attackers are no longer simply throwing malware at users and hoping for results. They’re building ecosystems . Recent Malwarebytes threat research data reveals a sharp rise in mobile threats
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Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Gmail’s multi-factor authentication bypassed by hackers to pull off targeted attacks Thousands of private camera feeds found online. Make sure yours isn’t one of them Sextortion email scammers increase their “Hello pervert” money demands Many data brokers are failing to register with state consumer protection agencies Facial recognition: Where and
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On my daily rounds, I encountered a phishing attempt that used a not completely unusual, yet clever delivery method. What began as a seemingly routine DocuSign notification turned into a multi-layered deception involving Webflow, a shady redirect, and a legitimate Google login page. Webflow is a visual website builder that allows designers and developers to
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Cybercriminals are bypassing the guardrails that are supposed to keep AI models from carrying out criminal activities, according to researchers. We’ve seen the misuse of AI models by cybercriminals growing rapidly over the past several years, shaping a new era of digital threats. Early on, attackers focused on jailbreaking public AI chatbots, which meant they
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The “Do Not Call Registry” receives a lot of hate online for failing to do its job: Stop calls. “What’s the point of being on the Do Not Call list?” wrote one user on Reddit who shared a screenshot of ten declined phone calls received across one week. Though already registered with the Do Not
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Our remote team recently took a trip to our Estonian office. When we arrived from our various destinations, we started chatting about how our travel had been. Our senior privacy advocate, David Ruiz, mentioned that he’d opted out of facial recognition while at San Francisco International Airport. However, not everyone on the team knew this
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Hundreds of data brokers haven’t registered with state consumer protection agencies, according to The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC). There are different kinds of data brokers, but what they all have in common is that they gather personally identifiable information (PII) from publicly available data, datasets stolen in cybercrimes, and other places.
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Every so often the sextortion emails that start with “Hello pervert” get a redesign. You may have received one yourself: The emails claim that the sender has been watching your online behavior and caught you red-handed doing activities that you would like to keep private. The email usually starts with “Hello pervert” and then goes
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