A person working in the city of Amagasaki, in Western Japan, has mislaid a USB stick which contained data on the…
Month: June 2022
Instagram introduces new ways for users to verify their age
If Instagram suspects you are fibbing about your age, you’ll currently see the following message: “You must be at least 13…
Brave Search wants to replace Google’s biased search results with yours
Brave Search, Brave Software’s privacy search engine, just turned one. To celebrate, the company says it is moving the search engine…
A week in security (June 20 – June 26)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Stay safe!
5 ways to avoid being catfished
Today, many Americans will head out to the water—not to swim, but to catch a catfish in time for National Catfish…
Rogue cryptocurrency billboards go phishing for wallets
Billboards and digital real world advertising has raised many questions of privacy and anonymity in recent years. Until now, the primary…
Dial 311 for… cybersecurity emergencies?
Members of the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee of CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) have proposed an emergency cybersecurity call line for…
Police seize and dismantle massive phishing operation
Europol has coordinated a joint operation to arrest members of a cybercrime gang and effectively dismantle their campaigns that netted million…
Watch out for the email that says “You have a new voicemail!”
A phishing campaign is using voicemail notification messages to go after victims’ Office 365 credentials. According to researchers at ZScaler, the…
MEGA claims it can’t decrypt your files. But someone’s managed to…
MEGA, the cloud storage provider and file hosting service, is very proud of its end-to-end encryption. It says it couldn’t decrypt…