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Online crime of all kinds is deplorable, but romance scammers and sextortionists who target the most vulnerable victims are among the worst. Now, there’s likely a place for 260 of them in jail, thanks to international law enforcement. Interpol’s Operation Contender 3.0 targeted alleged criminals from several countries across Africa. It arrested 260 people and […]

Another day, another settlement. Amazon has settled a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over misleading customers who signed up for Amazon Prime—though it claims it did nothing wrong. The FTC alleged that Amazon used deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime subscriptions—and made it exceedingly difficult to cancel. In the settlement,

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Hackers threaten parents: Get nursery to pay ransom or we leak your child’s data Google and Flo to pay $56 million after misusing users’ health data Neon App pays users to record their phone calls, sells data for AI training [updated] New SVG-based phishing campaign is a recipe for disaster

Just when you think extortionists can’t sink any lower, along comes a lowlife that manages to surprise you. The BBC reported that a group calling itself “Radiant” claims to have stolen sensitive data related to around 8,000 children from nursery chain Kido, which operates in the UK, US, China, and India. The data the group

Popular period-tracking app Flo Health shared users’ intimate health data—such as menstrual cycles and fertility information—with Google and Meta, allegedly for targeted advertising purposes, according to multiple class-action lawsuits filed in the US and Canada. Between 2016 and 2019, the developers of Flo Health shared intimate user data with companies including Facebook and Google, mobile

TechCrunch reports about a “bizarre app” inviting you to record and share your audio calls so that it can sell the data to AI companies. And if that’s not weird enough on its own, it’s ranking No. 2 in Apple’s US app store at the time of writing. The name of the app is Neon Mobile

A group of privacy commissioners in Canada have accused TikTok of scooping up information about hundreds of thousands of children who shouldn’t have been on the platform. The Chinese social media giant is also accused of collecting data on Canadian users without properly explaining what it does with that information, the watchdogs added. In a