Results for 'hoax'
Avoid this “lost injured dog” Facebook hoax
April 18, 2023 - Facebook users are advised to be wary of posts involving injured dogs receiving treatment at a vet surgery, or pets sitting...
“Baby dumped at the gate” post is a Facebook hoax
December 5, 2022 - Every so often, bizarre but oddly believable scams do the rounds on Facebook. And so we have the latest: A tragic tale...
Don’t share the WhatsApp ‘Martinelli’ phone hacking alert: It’s a hoax
September 6, 2022 - Everyone loves a good campfire story prone to exaggeration. However, when told online it’s not quite got the same effect. Long...
Brad Pitt subject of new hoax after split with Jolie
September 28, 2016 - News of famed actor, Brad Pitt, purportedly taking his own life has been making rounds within Facebook immediately after TMZ revealed...
New celebrity death hoax hits Facebook
August 9, 2016 - These past few days, it appears that Facebook (and YouTube) has become the launchpad to yet another celebrity death hoax. This...
January 1st Instagram Profile Deletion Hoax
December 30, 2014 - Watch out for accounts on Instagram claiming a mass purge is coming on January 1, 2015 unless your account is “verified”, with...
Hoaxes
March 25, 2013 - A hoax ( to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous ) is the word we...
AI generated Pentagon explosion photograph goes viral on Twitter
May 23, 2023 - Twitter’s recent changes to checkmark verification continue to cause chaos, this time in the realm of potentially dangerous misinformation. A checkmarked...
A week in security (April 17 – 23)
April 24, 2023 - Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Malwarebytes removes all remnants of ransomware and prevents you from getting reinfected. Want to learn more...