You get a message from a Discord friend. Or maybe an unknown indie developer reaches out to you. “Can you test my game?” they ask. The webpage they send over a link to looks legit: screenshots, dev blurb, itch.io-style layout, and the download button is right there, waiting to be clicked. The problem is […]
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Phishers and scammers can’t get enough of sending their feeble attempts to Malwarebytes’ employees. For which we can’t thank them enough because it means we can warn you, our readers. This time the scammers tried to impersonate Best Wallet—an app that lets people store, send, and receive cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum directly on their
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In December 2024, CPAP Medical Supplies and Services Inc. (CPAP), a Jacksonville—a Florida-based provider of sleep therapy services and CPAP machines—experienced a cybersecurity incident that compromised the personal data of over 90,000 patients. Since CPAP Medical specializes in tailored sleep apnea equipment for the US military, most of the patients are military members, veterans, and
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Popular social platform Discord has suffered a data breach—though technically, it wasn’t Discord itself that was hacked. A third-party customer support provider was compromised, allowing attackers to access Discord’s user data. Either way, it’s Discord users who feel the impact. The breach, which happened on September 20, didn’t involve a direct attack on Discord’s servers.
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In a very recent and well-targeted phishing attempt, scammers tried to get hold of the 1Password credentials belonging to a Malwarebytes’ employee. Stealing someone’s 1Password login would be like hitting the jackpot for cybercriminals, because they potentially export all the saved logins the target stored in the password manager. The phishing email looked like this:
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This week on the Lock and Code podcast… “Connection” was the promise—and goal—of much of the early internet. No longer would people be separated from vital resources and news that was either too hard to reach or made simply inaccessible by governments. No longer would education be guarded behind walls both physical and paid. And
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While two-factor authentication (2FA) is not completely fool-proof, it is one of the best ways to protect your accounts from hackers. It adds an extra step when logging in, which is a small extra effort for you, but it dramatically boosts your security. With 2FA, you’ll be asked for a special login code when signing
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Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: From threats to apology, hackers pull child data offline after public backlash Your Meta AI conversations may come back as ads in your feed Scam Facebook groups send malicious Android malware to seniors Sendit tricked kids, harvested their data, and faked messages, FTC claims Gemini AI flaws could have exposed
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Last week we yelled at some “hackers” that threatened parents after stealing data from their children’s nursery. This followed a BBC report that a group calling itself “Radiant” claimed to have stolen sensitive data related to around 8,000 children from nursery chain Kido, which operates in the UK, US, China, and India. To prove their possession
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Meta has announced that conversations with its AI assistant will soon be used for targeted advertising. If you’re the kind of person that notices ads for products just after you spoke about them, you won’t be happy about this update. Meta AI is the company’s generative AI assistant, built into Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and
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