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5 riskiest places to get scammed online
Scammers love your smartphone. They can text you fraudulent tracking links for packages you never bought. They can profess their empty love to you across your social media apps. They can bombard your email inbox with phishing attempts, impersonate a family member through a phone call, and even...
WordPress Sites Turned Weapon: How VexTrio and Affiliates Run a Global Scam Network
The threat actors behind the VexTrio Viper Traffic Distribution Service TDS have been linked to other TDS services like Help TDS and Disposable TDS, indicating that the sophisticated cybercriminal operation is a sprawling enterprise of its own that's designed to distribute malicious content...
44% of people encounter a mobile scam every single day, Malwarebytes finds
It’s become so troublesome owning a phone. Malicious texts pose as package delivery notifications, phishing emails impersonate trusted brands, and unknown calls hide extortion attempts, virtual kidnapping schemes, or AI threats. Confusingly, even legitimate businesses now lean on outreach tactics...
Been scammed online? Here’s what to do
Unfortunately, people getting scammed online is a frequent event. Scammers are getting better at social engineering and are using Artificial Intelligence AI to sound more authentic and eliminate any spelling errors. It really can happen to anyone, so there's no need to feel embarrassed if you hav...
Booking.com reservation abused as cybercriminals steal from travelers
Robert Woodford, a recruitment marketing specialist, recently shared on LinkedIn how he fell victim to a highly sophisticated scam while booking a hotel in Verona through Booking.com, providing a striking example of how attacks on the hospitality industry affect travelers. After completing a...
Microsoft Helps CBI Dismantle Indian Call Centers Behind Japanese Tech Support Scam
India's Central Bureau of Investigation CBI has revealed that it has arrested six individuals and dismantled two illegal call centers that were found to be engaging in a sophisticated transnational tech support scam targeting Japanese citizens. The law enforcement agency said it conducted...
Scammers are constantly changing the game, but so are we. Introducing Malwarebytes Scam Guard
Mobile scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated, leaving people vulnerable to cybercriminals. We recently reported on the ever-increasing number of scams that are created by AI-supported tools, with attackers crafting highly convincing phishing emails that target both individuals and...
US Sanctions Philippines’ Funnull Technology Over $200M Crypto Scam
The US Department of the Treasury has taken action against Funnull Technology Inc. for enabling massive pig butchering…...
CVE-2024-9329
In Eclipse Glassfish versions before 7.0.17, The Host HTTP parameter could cause the web application to redirect to the specified URL, when the requested endpoint is '/management/domain'. By modifying the URL value to a malicious site, an attacker may successfully launch a phishing scam and steal...
CVE-2024-7941
An HTTP parameter may contain a URL value and could cause the web application to redirect the request to the specified URL. By modifying the URL value to a malicious site, an attacker may successfully launch a phishing scam and steal user credentials...
Researchers Expose PWA JavaScript Attack That Redirects Users to Adult Scam Apps
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that employs malicious JavaScript injections to redirect site visitors on mobile devices to a Chinese adult-content Progressive Web App PWA scam. "While the payload itself is nothing new yet another adult gambling scam, the delivery method...
PsyScam: a Benchmark for Psychological Techniques in Real-World Scams
Online scams have become increasingly prevalent, with scammers using psychological techniques PTs to manipulate victims. While existing research has developed benchmarks to study scammer behaviors, these benchmarks do not adequately reflect the PTs observed in real-world scams. To fill this gap, ...
Police Shut Down Fake Trading Platform That Scammed Hundreds
Police in Europe have shut down a fake online trading platform that scammed hundreds of victims out of…...
The Internet’s Biggest-Ever Black Market Just Shut Down Amid a Telegram Purge
Following a WIRED inquiry, Telegram banned thousands of accounts used for crypto-scam money laundering, including those of Haowang Guarantee, a black market that enabled over $27 billion in transactions...
North Korean IT Workers Are Being Exposed on a Massive Scale
Security researchers are publishing 1,000 email addresses they claim are linked to North Korean IT worker scams that infiltrated Western companies—along with photos of men allegedly involved in the schemes...
Google Is Using On-Device AI to Spot Scam Texts and Investment Fraud
Android’s “Scam Detection” protection in Google Messages will now be able to flag even more types of digital fraud...
A week in security (May 4 – May 10)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: The AI chatbot cop squad is here Lock and Code S06E09 Android fixes 47 vulnerabilities, including one zero-day. Update as soon as you can! "Your privacy is a promise we don’t break": Dating app Raw exposes sensitive user data FBI issues warning as scammers target...
Tired of Google sponsored ads? So are we! That’s why we’re introducing the option to block them on iOS
Sponsored ads on Google search don’t just irritate users—they also provide a dangerous opportunity for cybercriminals to spread malware and scams to their unsuspecting victims. What looks like a harmless search result can be a carefully disguised trap. At Malwarebytes, our researchers have...
FBI issues warning as scammers target victims of crime
The FBI has issued a warning about an ongoing fraud scheme where criminal scammers are impersonating FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 employees in order to scam people. Between December 2023 and February 2025, the FBI received over 100 reports of scams involving people posing as IC3...