Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Text scams grow to steal hundreds of millions of dollars Apple patches security vulnerabilities in iOS and iPadOS. Update now! Hi, robot: Half of all internet traffic now automated “I sent you an email from your email account,” sextortion scam claims “Follow me” to this fake crypto exchange to claim […]
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This week on the Lock and Code podcast… If you don’t know about the newly created US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), there’s a strong chance they already know about you. Created on January 20 by US President Donald Trump through Executive Order, DOGE’s broad mandate is “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental
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This week on the Lock and Code podcast… If you don’t know about the newly created US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), there’s a strong chance they already know about you. Created on January 20 by US President Donald Trump through Executive Order, DOGE’s broad mandate is “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental
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Text scams alone cost US citizens at least $470 million in 2024, according to new data from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Because many scams go unreported, though, this dollar amount might be considerably more. The FTC illustrated this with a graph comparing the reported losses to the number of reports. Graph courtesy of
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Apple has released a security update for iOS and iPadOS to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities which are reported to already have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on iOS. Both vulnerabilities allowed an attacker to bypass the memory protections that would normally stop someone from running malicious code. Reportedly, attackers used them
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If you sometimes feel that the internet isn’t the same vibrant place it used to be, you’re not alone. New research suggests that most of the traffic traversing the network isn’t human at all. Bots (software programs that interact with web sites) have been ubiquitous for years. But in its 2025 Bad Bot Report, application
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In a new version of the old “Hello pervert” emails, scammers are relying on classic email spoofing techniques to try and convince victims that they have lost control of their email account and computer systems. Email spoofing basically comes down to sending emails with a false sender address, a method in use in various ways
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A type of crypto scam that we reported about in 2024 has ported over to a new platform and changed tactics—a bit. Where the old scams mostly reached me on WhatsApp, the same group of scammers is now using Direct Messages on X. However, the same old trick of “accidentally” sending you login details to
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The Hertz Corporation, on behalf of Hertz, Dollar, and Thrifty brands, is sending breach notifications to customers who may have had their name, contact information, driver’s license, and—in rare cases—Social Security Number exposed in a data breach. The car rental giant’s data was stolen in a ransomware attack leveraging a vulnerability in Cleo file sharing
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European Facebook users have so far avoided having their public posts used to train parent company Meta’s AI model. That’s about to change, the company has warned. In a blog post today, it said that EU residents’ data was fair game and it would be slurping up public posts for training soon. Facebook, which launched
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