Class-Action Lawsuit against Google’s Incognito Mode

The lawsuit has been settled: Google has agreed to delete "billions of data records" the company collected while users browsed the web using Incognito mode, according to documents filed in federal court in San Francisco on Monday. The agreement, part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit file...

Trusted Advisor now available for Mac, iOS, and Android

First released for Windows last year, the Malwarebytes Trusted Advisor dashboard is also now available on Mac, iOS and Android. Our Trusted Advisor dashboard provides an easy-to-understand assessment of your device’s security, with a single comprehensive protection score, and clear, expert-driven...

Compromising Bank Customer Trust: The Price of Inadequate Data Protection

Banks hold not just money, but also emotions and aspirations. Countless stories unfold within bank walls, reflecting the intimate connection between money and emotion. Beyond the numbers and transactions, every dollar represents individuals’ hopes, dreams, and livelihoods. As the trusted custodia...

Google to Delete Billions of Browsing Records in 'Incognito Mode' Privacy Lawsuit Settlement

Google has agreed to purge billions of data records reflecting users' browsing activities to settle a class action lawsuit that claimed the search giant tracked them without their knowledge or consent in its Chrome browser. The class action, filed in 2020, alleged the company misled users by...

The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled

To settle a years-long lawsuit, Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” collected from users of “Incognito mode,” illuminating the pitfalls of relying on Chrome to protect your privacy...

A week in security (March 25 – March 31)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: MFA bombing taken to the next level How to back up your Mac How to back up your Windows 10/11 PC to OneDrive How to back up your iPhone to a Windows computer How to back up your iPhone to a Mac How to back up your iPhone to iCloud Powering the future of ThreatDown...

Smart Alarm 安全漏洞

Smart Alarm is a privacy-focused sleep tracker by the individual developer of fridgecow. A security vulnerability exists in Smart Alarm v1.8.1, which stems from an unknown part of the androidmanifest.xml in the component Backup File Handler, leading to the exposure of the backup file...

BIT-MOODLE-2024-25980 Msa-24-0003: h5p attempts report did not respect activity group settings

Separate Groups mode restrictions were not honored in the H5P attempts report, which would display users from other groups. By default this only provided additional access to non-editing teachers...

CVE-2023-40390

A privacy issue was addressed by moving sensitive data to a protected location. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.2. An app may be able to access user-sensitive data...

CVE-2023-40390

A privacy issue was addressed by moving sensitive data to a protected location. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.2. An app may be able to access user-sensitive data...

CVE-2023-40390

A privacy issue was addressed by moving sensitive data to a protected location. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.2. An app may be able to access user-sensitive data...

CVE-2023-40390

CVE-2023-40390 is a privacy issue in macOS Sonoma that was addressed by moving sensitive data to a protected location. The vulnerability could allow an app to access user-sensitive data. It is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.2. The accompanying CVSS 3.1 data (LOCAL, LOW complexity, NONE privileges, UI r...

CVE-2023-40390

A privacy issue was addressed by moving sensitive data to a protected location. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.2. An app may be able to access user-sensitive data...

Darcula Phishing Network Leveraging RCS and iMessage to Evade Detection

A sophisticated phishing-as-a-service PhaaS platform called Darcula has set its sights on organizations in over 100 countries by leveraging a massive network of more than 20,000 counterfeit domains to help cyber criminals launch attacks at scale. "Using iMessage and RCS rather than SMS to send te...

Telegram Offers Premium Subscription in Exchange for Using Your Number to Send OTPs

In June 2017, a study of more than 3,000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT students published by the National Bureau for Economic Research NBER found that 98% of them were willing to give away their friends' email addresses in exchange for free pizza. "Whereas people say they care about...

Spoutible Enhances Platform Security through Partnership with Wallarm

Spoutible, the rapidly growing social media platform known for its commitment to fostering a safe, inclusive, and respectful online community, has taken a significant step forward in its mission to ensure user safety, security and data integrity. Recognizing the critical importance of robust API...

YouTube ordered to reveal the identities of video viewers

Federal US authorities have asked Google for the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and user activity of accounts that watched certain YouTube videos, according to unsealed court documents Forbes has seen. Of those users that weren’t logged in when they watched those videos between January 1 an...

The vulnerability of ExpressVPN’s split-tunneling function allows a hacker to obtain confidential information about websites visited by VPN users.

The vulnerability of ExpressVPN’s split-tunneling service lies in the lack of protection for service-related data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to obtain confidential information about websites visited by VPN users remotely...

phpMyFAQ Stored HTML Injection at contentLink

Summary Due to insufficient validation on the contentLink parameter, it is possible for unauthenticated users to inject HTML code to the page which might affect other users. Also, requires that adding new FAQs is allowed for guests and that the admin doesn't check the content of a newly added FAQ...

GHSA-48VW-JPF8-HWQH phpMyFAQ Stored HTML Injection at contentLink

Summary Due to insufficient validation on the contentLink parameter, it is possible for unauthenticated users to inject HTML code to the page which might affect other users. Also, requires that adding new FAQs is allowed for guests and that the admin doesn't check the content of a newly added FAQ...