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If you are under the impression that cybercriminals need to get their hands on compromised AI chatbots to help them do their dirty work, think again. Some AI chatbots are just so user friendly that they can help the user craft phishing text, and even malicious HTML and Javascript code. A few weeks ago we […]

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

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

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

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’.

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