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    New Discord username policy raises user privacy fears

    Posted: May 10, 2023 by Christopher Boyd

    Discord, the Voice over IP (VoIP) and instant message communications tool, is changing how usernames function in a major way soon. Many…

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    Website owners are once again at war with tools designed to scrape content from their sites.  An AI scraper called img2dataset…

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    Gamers beware: The risks of Real Money Trading (RMT) explained

    Posted: September 10, 2021 by Malwarebytes Labs

    Any game with an online component can be at risk from a practice known as Real Money Trading (RMT), where in-game…

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    Posted: July 12, 2021 by Malwarebytes Labs

    Elon Musk is an incredibly popular target for scammers and spammers on social media. Attach his name to something he has…

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    Black Mirror meets 1984. Imagine that your employer uses a bot to keep track of your “production level.” And when this…

    New Golang brute forcer discovered amid rise in e-commerce attacks
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    Posted: February 26, 2019 by Jérôme Segura

    E-commerce websites continue to be targeted by online criminals looking to steal personal and payment information directly from unaware shoppers. Recently,…

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    Posted: February 23, 2018 by hasherezade

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