Malwarebytes Cyber Security Software & Anti-Malware
- Healthcare security lapses keep piling upon February 21, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Healthcare security is failing patients time and again. This week DM Clinical Research and Helath Net Federal Services take the spotlight
- SecTopRAT bundled in Chrome installer distributed via Google Adson February 20, 2025 at 8:27 pm
Beware before downloading Google Chrome from a Google search, you might get more than you expected.
- Google Docs used by infostealer ACRStealer as part of attackon February 20, 2025 at 3:49 pm
An infostealer known as ACRStealer is using legitimate platforms like Google Docs and Steam as part of an attack.
- DeepSeek found to be sharing user data with TikTok parent company ByteDanceon February 20, 2025 at 2:23 pm
South Korea says it’s uncovered evidence that DeepSeek has secretly been sharing data with ByteDance, the parent company of popular social media app TikTok.
- Malwarebytes introduces native ARM support for Windows devices on February 19, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Malwarebytes now protects ARM-based Windows devices, such as Microsoft’s Surface Pro X and Lenovo’s Yoga laptops.
- Google now allows digital fingerprinting of its userson February 19, 2025 at 1:40 pm
Google is allowing its advertising customers to fingerprint website visitors. Can you stop it?
- Macs targeted by infostealers in new era of cyberthreatson February 19, 2025 at 12:51 pm
Info stealers are thriving on Mac, with one specific variant accounting for 70% of all info stealer detections at the end of 2024.
- Hard drives containing sensitive medical data found in flea marketon February 18, 2025 at 8:57 pm
A flea market buyer found medical information about hundreds of patients on second hand decommissioned hard drives.
- A week in security (February 10 – February 16)on February 17, 2025 at 8:12 am
A list of topics we covered in the week of February 10 to February 16 of 2025
- 12 Million Zacks accounts leaked by cybercriminalon February 14, 2025 at 6:24 pm
A cybercriminal stole a reported 12 million data records on Zacks’ customers and clients.
- How AI was used in an advanced phishing campaign targeting Gmail userson February 13, 2025 at 9:08 pm
Scammers are once again using AI to take over Gmail accounts.
- Fake Etsy invoice scam tricks sellers into sharing credit card information on February 12, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Etsy sellers are being targeted by scammers that use a legitimate Etsy domain to host their dodgy PDFs.
- Gambling firms are secretly sharing your data with Facebook on February 12, 2025 at 11:30 am
Gambling companies are sharing their users’ data with Meta for marketing and tracking purposes.
- Apple fixes zero-day vulnerability used in “extremely sophisticated attack”on February 11, 2025 at 2:55 pm
Apple has released an out-of-band security update for a vulnerability which it says may have been exploited in an “extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.”
- Phishing evolves beyond email to become latest Android app threaton February 11, 2025 at 2:38 pm
Android phishing apps are the latest, critical threat for Android users, putting their passwords in danger of new, sneaky tricks of theft.
- Apple ordered to grant access to users’ encrypted dataon February 11, 2025 at 1:42 pm
The UK has demanded Apple provides it with a worldwide backdoor into iCloud backups. Privacy organizations are furious.
- A suicide reveals the lonely side of AI chatbots, with Courtney Brown (Lock and Code S06E03)on February 10, 2025 at 4:42 pm
This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Courtney Brown about whether an AI chatbot can be blamed for a teenager’s suicide.
- A week in security (February 3 – February 9)on February 10, 2025 at 8:05 am
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Last week on ThreatDown: Stay safe!
- 20 million OpenAI accounts offered for saleon February 7, 2025 at 4:32 pm
A cybercriminal calling themselves emirking is offering 20 million OpenAI accounts for sale on a Dark Web forum
- New scams could abuse brief USPS suspension of inbound packages from China, Hong Kongon February 6, 2025 at 5:28 pm
News about USPS suspending shipments from China and Hong Kong may give scammers some ideas to defraud consumers
