Back in August 2024, we warned about a relatively new type of SMS phishing (or smishing) scam that was doing the rounds. Now a new wave of toll fee scams are working their way round the US. These attempts come as an unexpected text message linking to a website pretending to belong to one of […]
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Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Why we’re no longer doing April Fools’ Day Intimate images from kink and LGBTQ+ dating apps left exposed online “Urgent reminder” tax scam wants to phish your Microsoft credentials “Nudify” deepfakes stored unprotected online Location, name, and photos of random kids shown to parents in child tracker mix up QR
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Security researcher Evan Connelly discovered an enormous flaw affecting one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world that could allow any single person to view the recent incoming call log for potentially any Verizon phone number. “In short, anyone could lookup data for anyone,” Connelly said. A vulnerability in the Verizon Call Filter iOS
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Up to one in five of the most popular mobile VPNs for iOS last year are owned by Chinese companies that do their best to hide the fact. In at least one case, the owner is on a US blacklist. That’s according to a report from the non-profit Tech Transparency Project (TTP), who investigated the
Recently we’ve been seeing quite a few phishing campaigns using QR codes in email attachments. The lure and the targets are varied, but the use of a QR code to get someone to visit the phishing site is fast becoming a preferred method for cybercriminals. There are several reasons why cybercriminals might want to use
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Not one but several worried parents that tracked their children by using T-Mobile tracking devices suddenly found that they were looking at the location of random other children. And could not locate their own. T-Mobile sells a small GPS tracker called SyncUP, which can be used to track, among others, the locations of young children
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Yesterday, we told you about how millions of pictures from specialized dating apps had been stored online without any kind of password protection. Now it’s the turn of an AI “nudify” service. A researcher, famous for finding unprotected cloud storage buckets, has uncovered an unprotected AWS bucket belonging to the nudify service. The rising popularity
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