Results for 'social media'
New Mac OS X remediation offering and forensics capabilities for enterprise
May 26, 2016 - At Malwarebytes, our mission is to protect consumers and businesses from the most dangerous cyber threats. Today, we announced a new...
Hacking your head: how cybercriminals use social engineering
January 20, 2016 - Social engineering is nothing new. It’s a tool of psychological manipulation that’s been used since the dawn of man. Why? To...
Ukrainian Media Site RBC[dot]UA Drops CryptoWall Ransomware
July 27, 2015 - Popular news site rbc[dot]ua is currently hacked and infecting its visitors via the RIG exploit kit. The majority of the traffic to...
Patching the End User: How to Recognize the Social Engineering In Scams
June 11, 2013 - Scammers use psychological manipulation to defraud their victims, so it is extremely useful to be able to identify the social engineering elements...
Deepfake Taylor Swift images circulate online, politicians call for laws to ban deepfake creation
January 30, 2024 - Explicit deepfake images of Taylor Swift caused problems on social media and caused politicians to ask for more legislation
“Amazon got hacked” messages are a false alarm
December 11, 2023 - A message about extra delivery addresses getting added to Amazon accounts has gone wild on social media. Luckily, it's nothing to worry about.
Scammers can easily phish your multi-factor authentication codes. Here’s how to avoid it
May 16, 2024 - Phishers are using new authentication-in-the-middle techniques to dupe victims into providing their login and MFA credentials.
TikTok comes one step closer to a US ban
April 24, 2024 - The US Senate has approved a bill that will ban TikTok, unless it finds a new owner, bringing it one step closer to being signed into law.
Mental health company Cerebral failed to protect sensitive personal data, must pay $7 million
April 18, 2024 - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached a settlement with online mental health services company Cerebral after the company was charged with failing to secure and protect sensitive health data.
Cannabis investment scam JuicyFields ends in 9 arrests
April 18, 2024 - JuicyFields was an investment scam that urged victims to invest in cannabis production.