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Police using drones to read your license plates, warns EFF

Police are using drones as flying automated license plate readers (ALPRs), according to a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). And where there is a market, a provider will jump in. Or was it the other way around this time? Flock Safety, for example, recently told a group of potential law enforcement customers interested […]

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Fake Malwarebytes, LastPass, and others on GitHub serve malware

Fake versions of legitimate software are currently circulating on GitHub pages, in a large-scale campaign targeting Mac users. Unfortunately, Malwarebytes for Mac is one of them. Impersonating brands is sadly commonplace, as scammers take advantage of established brand names to target their victims. So this is nothing new, but we always want to warn you

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American Archive of Public Broadcasting allowed access to restricted media for years

A security flaw in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) website allowed unauthorized access to protected and private media, according to BleepingComputer. The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaborative initiative between the Library of Congress and WGBH Educational Foundation, aimed at digitally preserving historically significant public radio and television programs from

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Scammers are impersonating the FBI to steal your personal data

Been scammed? Hoping to report it to the FBI? Definitely do so, but be careful. Spoofed versions of the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website are now circulating online, and they lead straight back to the scammers. The FBI issued an advisory last week, warning that cybercriminals are setting up fake versions of their

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ChatGPT solves CAPTCHAs if you tell it they’re fake

If you’re seeing fewer or different CAPTCHA puzzles in the near future, that’s not because website owners have agreed that they’re annoying, but it might be because they no longer prove that the visitor is human. For those that forgot what CAPTCHA stands for: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.

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A week in security (September 15 – September 21)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: ChatGPT Deep Research zero-click vulnerability fixed by OpenAI Disrupted phishing service was after Microsoft 365 credentials Update your Chrome today: Google patches 4 vulnerabilities including one zero-day Age verification and parental controls coming to ChatGPT to protect teens 224 malicious apps removed from the Google Play Store after ad fraud

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ChatGPT Deep Research zero-click vulnerability fixed by OpenAI

OpenAI has moved quickly to patch a vulnerability known as “ShadowLeak” before anyone detected real-world abuse. Revealed by researchers yesterday, ShadowLeak was an issue in OpenAI’s Deep Research project that attackers could exploit by simply sending an email to the target. Deep Research was launched in ChatGPT in early 2025 to enable users to delegate

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