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- Facial recognition: Where and how you can opt outon June 25, 2025 at 8:16 pm
Facial recognition is quickly becoming commonplace. It is important to know where, when, and how you can opt out.
- Many data brokers are failing to register with state consumer protection agencieson June 25, 2025 at 12:56 pm
Data brokers that have registered in one state are failing to register in other states. What could be behind this?
- Sextortion email scammers increase their “Hello pervert” money demandson June 25, 2025 at 9:41 am
“Hello pervert” sextortion emails are going through some changes and the price they’re demanding has gone up considerably.
- Thousands of private camera feeds found online. Make sure yours isn’t one of themon June 24, 2025 at 8:37 pm
What happens in the privacy of your own home stays there. Or does it?
- Gmail’s multi-factor authentication bypassed by hackers to pull off targeted attackson June 23, 2025 at 12:47 pm
Russian hackers have convinced targets to share their app passwords in very sophisticated and targeted social engineering attacks.
- A week in security (June 15 – June 21)on June 23, 2025 at 7:05 am
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Last week on ThreatDown: Stay safe!
- Billions of logins for Apple, Google, Facebook, Telegram, and more found exposed onlineon June 19, 2025 at 1:58 pm
Researchers have uncovered 30 exposed data sets containing over 16 billion login credentials which were likely harvested by infostealers.
- Mattel’s going to make AI-powered toys, kids’ rights advocates are worriedon June 19, 2025 at 1:36 pm
Toy company Mattel has announced a deal with OpenAI to create AI-powered toys, but digital rights advocates have urged caution.
- Fake bank ads on Instagram scam victims out of moneyon June 18, 2025 at 2:18 pm
Several Instagram ads have been found impersonating banks, including the usage of deepfake videos to defraud consumers.
- 5 riskiest places to get scammed onlineon June 18, 2025 at 9:48 am
These five communication channels are favored by scammers to try and trick victims at least once a week—if not more.
- Scammers hijack websites of Bank of America, Netflix, Microsoft, and more to insert fake phone numberon June 18, 2025 at 9:28 am
Scammers are abusing sponsored search results, displaying their scammy phone number on legitimate brand websites.
- WhatsApp to start targeting you with adson June 17, 2025 at 7:49 pm
WhatsApp has announced it will start showing its users targeted ads. Will this be yet another Meta “Pay or OK” choice?
- Smart air fryers ordered to stop invading our digital privacyon June 17, 2025 at 11:05 am
In a confirmation that we’ve gone full Black Mirror, air fryer and other IoT manufacturers are being told to stop playing with our data.
- Reddit’s new AI-powered tools scan your posts to serve you better adson June 17, 2025 at 10:43 am
Reddit has announced more AI-powered tools to help advertisers. But do users care for it?
- The data on denying social media for kids (re-air) (Lock and Code S06E12)on June 16, 2025 at 4:33 pm
This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we revisit a 2024 interview with Dr. Jean Twenge about smartphones and the teen mental health crisis.
- A week in security (June 9 – June 15)on June 16, 2025 at 7:01 am
A list of topics we covered in the week of June 9 to June 15 of 2025
- Your Meta AI chats might be public, and it’s not a bugon June 13, 2025 at 3:30 pm
Users of the Meta AI seem to be sharing their sensitive conversations with the entire world without being aware of it
- US airline industry quietly selling flight data to DHSon June 11, 2025 at 9:48 pm
Flight data of US customers is being sold by several airlines through a joint data broker sending contracts to ICE and CBP.
- 23andMe raked by Congress on privacy, sale of genetic dataon June 11, 2025 at 6:09 pm
In a senate hearing, 23andMe was questioned about the impending take-over of the company and its trove of genetic data
- GirlsDoPorn owner faces life in jail after pleading guilty to sex traffickingon June 10, 2025 at 9:29 pm
GirlsDoPorn owner pleaded guilty to sex trafficking through his coercive pornographic websites. He now faces life in prison.
