AI Agents Are Visiting Your Website. Which Ones Should You Trust?

The internet is changing fast. For years, the main goal of search was simple: to help users find links. A user searched, reviewed results, clicked a website, and consumed the content directly from the source. But AI is changing that model. Increasingly, users ask AI assistants for answers instead...

Meta pauses controversial employee-tracking program after security review

Meta has paused a controversial employee‑tracking program after an internal security review found that highly granular keystroke and screen‑capture data from staff laptops was far more widely accessible inside the company than intended. The program was part of Meta's Model Capability Initiative...

[Correction] Gmail can read your emails and attachments to power “smart features”

Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail's smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot o...

A week in security (September 22 – September 28)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Hackers threaten parents: Get nursery to pay ransom or we leak your child’s data Google and Flo to pay $56 million after misusing users’ health data Neon App pays users to record their phone calls, sells data for AI training updated New SVG-based phishing campaign ...