ALL POSTS Is your phone listening to you? (re-air) (Lock and Code S07E03) Malwarebytes Labs February 9, 2026 0 Comments This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we revisit an episode from 2025 in which we tried to answer: Is your phone listening to you? AI chat app leak exposes 300 million messages tied to 25 million users Pieter Arntz February 9, 2026 0 Comments A security researcher found an exposed database belonging to the Chat & Ask AI app, once again traced back to a Firebase misconfiguration. Fake 7-Zip downloads are turning home PCs into proxy nodes Stefan Dasic February 9, 2026 0 Comments A convincing lookalike of the popular 7-Zip archiver site has been silently turning victims’ machines into residential proxy nodes. A week in security (February 2 – February 8) Malwarebytes Labs February 9, 2026 0 Comments A list of topics we covered in the week of February 2 to February 8 of 2026 Apple Pay phish uses fake support calls to steal payment details Pieter Arntz February 6, 2026 0 Comments This Apple Pay phishing campaign is designed to funnel victims into fake Apple Support calls, where scammers steal payment details. Open the wrong “PDF” and attackers gain remote access to your PC Pieter Arntz February 5, 2026 0 Comments The DEAD#VAX campaign tricks users into installing AsyncRAT by disguising a virtual hard disk as a PDF attachment. Flock cameras shared license plate data without permission Danny Bradbury February 5, 2026 0 Comments A California city pulled the plug on its entire ALPR system when it found Flock had shared data with hundreds of agencies without permission. Grok continues producing sexualized images after promised fixes Pieter Arntz February 4, 2026 0 Comments Journalists retested Grok and found it still generates offensive images even when told the subjects were vulnerable, non-consenting people. Firefox is giving users the AI off switch Pieter Arntz February 4, 2026 0 Comments Mozilla and other companies are starting to see why giving users a choice over AI features matters. Previous 1 2 3 4 … 602 Next Contributors Threat Center Podcast Glossary Scams
