Cloud infrastructure provider Shadow has warned of the data theft of over 500,000 customers. The customers were informed by a breach notification…
Month: October 2023
A week in security (October 9 – October 15)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Stay safe! Malwarebytes EDR and MDR removes all remnants of ransomware and prevents you from getting…
Explained: Quishing
Quishing is the contraction used by some security vendors for QR code based phishing. Since QR (Quick Response) codes are basically two-dimensional barcodes that…
Stalkerware activity drops as glaring spying problem is revealed
North America has a spying problem. Its perpetrators are everyday people. According to recent research from Malwarebytes, 62 percent of people in…
CISA catalog passes 1,000 known-to-be-exploited vulnerabilities. Celebration time, or is it?
On September 18, 2023, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced that its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog has reached the milestone of covering…
23andMe user data stolen, offered for sale
Information belonging to as many as seven million 23andMe customers has been put up for sale on criminal forums following a…
AI sneak attacks, location spying, and definitely not malware, or, what one teenager fears online: Lock and Code S04E21
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… What are you most worried about online? And what are you doing to…
Upgrading your Android device? Read this first
Last month, we wrote an article about what to do when upgrading your iPhone. Since then, we’ve received several requests to do a…
A week in security (October 2 – October 8)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Stay safe! We don’t just report on threats—we remove them Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond…
Multi-factor authentication has proven it works, so what are we waiting for?
Recently, Amazon announced that it will require all privileged Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts to use multi-factor authentication (MFA), starting in mid-2024. Our regular…