Got an Android phone? Got a tap-to-pay card? Then you’re like millions of other users now at risk from a new form of cybercrime – malware that can read your credit or debit card and hand its data over to an attacker. A newly discovered malicious program effectively turns Android phones into malicious tap machines […]
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Blue Shield of California leaked the personal data of 4.7 million people to Google after a Google Analytics misconfiguration. The tech giant may have used this data for targeted advertising, according to Blue Shield, which is one of the largest health insurers in the US. In a data breach notice on its website, Blue Shield
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Shopify faces a data privacy class action lawsuit in the US that could change the way globally active companies can be held accountable. The proposed class action is a revival of a case that had been dismissed by a lower court judge and a three-judge 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel. But now it’s been
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Cybercriminals are abusing Google’s infrastructure, creating emails that appear to come from Google in order to persuade people into handing over their Google account credentials. This attack, first flagged by Nick Johnson, the lead developer of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), a blockchain equivalent of the popular internet naming convention known as the Domain Name
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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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