As if ransomware wasn’t enough of a security problem for the sector, educational institutions also need to worry about their own students, a recent study shows. Last week, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published a report about the “insider threat of students”. Here are a few key points: Over half of school insider cyberattacks […]
Looking at our team’s recent text messages, you’d think that remote online evaluators are in high demand right now. Several members of our team have received the almost exact same job offer scam texts. The content of the messages is almost identical, but there is a variation in background images. “We are hiring Join our professional
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Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: AI browsers or agentic browsers: a look at the future of web surfing From Fitbit to financial despair: How one woman lost her life savings and more to a scammer Meta ignored child sex abuse in VR, say whistleblowers When AI chatbots leak and how it happens Fake Bureau of
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Articolo che fornisce la tecnica per rilevare informazioni sulle rete WIFI utilizzando le funzioni API di Windows.
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Browsers like Chrome, Edge, and Firefox are our traditional gateway to the internet. But lately, we have seen a new generation of browsers emerge. These are AI-powered browsers or “agentic browsers”—which are not to be confused with your regular browsers that have just AI-powered plugins bolted on. It might be better not to compare them
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We hear so often about people falling for scams and losing money. But we often don’t find out the real details of what happened, and how one “like” can turn into a nightmare that controls someone’s life for many years. This is that story. Not too long ago, a scam victim named Karen reached out
Two former employees at Meta testified against the company at a Senate hearing this week, accusing it of downplaying the dangers of child abuse in its virtual reality (VR) environment. The whistleblowers say they saw incidents where children were asked for sex acts and nude photos in Facebook’s VR world, which it calls the ‘metaverse’.
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In a recent article on Cybernews there were two clear signs of how fast the world of AI chatbots is growing. A company I had never even heard of had over 150 million app downloads across its portfolio, and it also had an exposed unprotected Elasticsearch instance. This needs a bit of an explanation. I
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Scammers are sending out texts that claim to be from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV), saying that you have outstanding traffic tickets. Here’s an example, which was sent to one of our employees. “Ohio (BMV) Final Notice: Enforcement Begins September 10nd. Our records indicate that as of today, you still have an outstanding traffic
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A Japanese octogenarian from Hokkaido Island lost thousands of dollars after being scammed by someone who described himself as a desperate astronaut in need of help. According to Hokkaidō Broadcasting, police in Sapporo say the fraudster contacted the woman on social media in July. After several weeks of exchanging messages, the ‘astronaut’ claimed he was
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