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16 Fake ChatGPT Extensions Caught Hijacking User Accounts
A coordinated campaign of 16 malicious GPT optimisers has been caught hijacking ChatGPT accounts. These tools steal session tokens to access private chats, Slack, and Google Drive files...
A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats
WhatsApp is going through a rough patch. Some users would argue it has been ever since Meta acquired the once widely trusted messaging platform. User sentiment has shifted from “trusted default messenger” to a grudgingly necessary Meta product. Privacy-aware users still see WhatsApp as one of the...
Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce
A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail...
Fake ChatGPT and DeepSeek Extensions Spied on Over 1 Million Chrome Users
Security researchers have identified two malicious Chrome extensions recording AI chats. Learn how to identify and remove these tools to protect your privacy...
Two Chrome Extensions Caught Stealing ChatGPT and DeepSeek Chats from 900,000 Users
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two new malicious extensions on the Chrome Web Store that are designed to exfiltrate OpenAI ChatGPT and DeepSeek conversations alongside browsing data to servers under the attackers' control. The names of the extensions, which collectively have over 900,0...
Popular NPM Package lotusbail Exposed as Trojan Stealing WhatsApp Chats
Koi Security uncovers lotusbail, a malicious npm package with 56K downloads that steals WhatsApp messages and installs a persistent backdoor. Learn how to protect your data...
Urban VPN Proxy Surreptitiously Intercepts AI Chats
This is pretty scary: Urban VPN Proxy targets conversations across ten AI platforms: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok xAI, Meta AI. For each platform, the extension includes a dedicated "executor" script designed to intercept and capture conversations. The...
The Ultra-Realistic AI Face Swapping Platform Driving Romance Scams
Capable of creating “nearly perfect” face swaps during live video chats, Haotian has made millions, mainly via Telegram. But its main channel vanished after WIRED's inquiry into scammers using the app...
Chrome extension slurps up AI chats after users installed it for privacy
This case highlights a growing grey area in consumer privacy: data collection that is technically disclosed, but so far outside user expectations that most people would never knowingly agree to it. The next time you tell an AI chat assistant your deepest secrets, think twice; you never know who o...
Google ads funnel Mac users to poisoned AI chats that spread the AMOS infostealer
Researchers have found evidence that AI conversations were inserted in Google search results to mislead macOS users into installing the Atomic macOS Stealer AMOS. Both Grok and ChatGPT were found to have been abused in these attacks. Forensic investigation of an AMOS alert showed the infection...
EUVD-2025-200727
The MxChat – AI Chatbot for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.5 via upload filenames. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract session values that can subsequently be used to access...
📄 WhatsApp Android Contact Gating Bypass
WhatsApp Android has a contact gating bypass in groups that leads to interaction-less media download. Background To prevent security issues and spam, WhatsApp for Android requires some form of user interaction to automatically download files from non-contacts: a. After adding someone as a contact...
New Sturnus Android Trojan Quietly Captures Encrypted Chats and Hijacks Devices
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called Sturnus that enables credential theft and full device takeover to conduct financial fraud. "A key differentiator is its ability to bypass encrypted messaging," ThreatFabric said in a report shared with The...
Cisco Finds Open-Weight AI Models Easy to Exploit in Long Chats
Cisco’s new research shows that open-weight AI models, while driving innovation, face serious security risks as multi-turn attacks, including conversational persistence, can bypass safeguards and expose data...
Baohuo Android Malware Hijacks Telegram Accounts via Fake Telegram X
New Android malware Baohuo hijacks Telegram X accounts, stealing data and controlling chats. Over 58,000 devices infected, mainly in India and Brazil...
A week in security (October 6 – October 12)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Apple voices concerns over age-check law that could put user privacy at risk Your passwords don’t need so many fiddly characters, NIST says Millions of very private chats exposed by two AI companion apps Fake VPN and streaming app drops malware that drains your ban...
Millions of (very) private chats exposed by two AI companion apps
Cybernews discovered how two AI companion apps, Chattee Chat and GiMe Chat, exposed millions of intimate conversations from over 400,000 users. This is not the first time we have to write about AI "girlfriends" exposing their secrets—and it probably won't be the last. This latest incident is a...
CVE-2025-60378
CVE-2025-60378 affects RISE Ultimate Project Manager & CRM. A stored HTML injection allows authenticated users to inject arbitrary HTML into invoices and messages, with injected content rendering in emails, PDFs, and messaging/chat modules sent to clients or team members. This enables phishing, c...