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Brightline breach hits at least 964,000 people, US records show
A pediatric behavioral health startup called Brightline informed its customers that their protected health data may have been stolen as part of a separate ransomware attack on a Brightline third-party service provider. "Based on the investigation, we identified a limited amount of protected healt...
Spring cleaning tips for your browser
When you are resting up from the physical part of your spring cleaning and youre sitting behind your laptop or swiping left on your phone, why dont you speed up your browsing experience with a few simple actions? Lets start with your browser, as that usually has the most impact on your perception...
Steer clear of this EE phish that wants your card details
Watch out for this piece of spam lurking in mail boxes and claiming to be from the EE mobile network. The mail, titled "We were unable to renew your monthly plan" with a likely random reference number alongside it, reads as follows: Due to a problem with your card, we were unable to charge your...
Solving the password’s hardest problem with passkeys, featuring Anna Pobletts
How many passwords do you have? If you're at all like our Lock and Code host David Ruiz, that number hovers around 200. But the important follow up question is: How many of those passwords can you actually remember on your own? Prior studies suggest a number that sounds nearly...
A week in security (March 13 - 19)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: "Brad Pitt," a still body, ketchup, and a knife, or the best trick ever played on a romance scammer, with Becky Holmes: Lock and Code S04E06 Breast cancer photos published by ransomware gang WhatsApp refuses to weaken encryption, would rather leave UK "Just awful"...
HardBit ransomware tailors ransom to fit your cyber insurance payout
Ransomware authors are wading into the cybersecurity insurance debate in a somewhat peculiar way. Specifically: urging victims to disclose details of their insurance contract, in order to tailor a ransom which will be beneficial to the company under attack. HardBit 2.0: dismantling a device piece...
Twitter and two-factor authentication: What's changing?
Twitter is making some dramatic shake ups to its currently available security settings. From March 19, users of Twitter wont be able to use SMS-based two-factor authentication 2FA unless they have a subscription to the paid Twitter Blue service. If you use text-based 2FA, the important thing here...
Four EU telco giants will start asking users if they want personalized targeted ads
They say you can't have too much of a good thing. Unfortunately, this applies to ads, too, whether you think they're a good thing or not. Soon, Europes four biggest telecommunication companies--Germany's Deutsche Telekom DK, France's Orange, Spain's Telefonica, and the UK's Vodafone Group--will...
Introducing Malwarebytes Mobile Security for Business: How to find malware and stop phishing attacks on smartphones and ChromeOS
Malwarebytes is excited to announce Malwarebytes Mobile Security for Business, which extends our award-winning endpoint protection to mobile devices. Dont get it twisted: mobile devices may be small, but they have huge implications for your security posture. In fact, 73% of organizations...
A week in security (January 23—29)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: T-Mobile reports data theft of 37 million customers in the US Ransomware revenue significantly down over 2022 Microsoft to end direct sale of Windows 10 licenses at the end of January TikTok CEO told to "step up efforts to comply" with digital laws 4 ways to protec...
Accountant ordered to pay ex-employer after bossware shows "time theft"
The case of Karlee Besse, an accountant in British Colombia, was recently dismissed by the Civil Resolution Tribunal CRT in Canada, with a judge ordering her to pay back her former employer, Reach CPA, for "engaging in time theft"--a revelation that wouldn't have been possible if not for software...
WhatsApp lawsuit against NSO Group greenlit by Supreme Court
On Monday, the US Supreme Court denied the NSO Group's petition for a writ of certiorari, a request to the high court to review its case, signaling that Meta's WhatsApp can go ahead with its case against the Israeli-based company behind the Pegasus spyware. The court didn't explain why it refused...
Play ransomware group claims to have stolen hotel chain data
H-Hotels, a large hospitality chain with 60 hotels across several countries including Germany and Switzerland has announced it has fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The incident, which took place on December 11, is allegedly a double whammy of hijacked devices and data theft…if a ransomware...
Worldwide law enforcement action takes down major DDoS booter services
Criminals making use of booter services which execute Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks to take down websites will have to try a little bit harder today: A major international operation has taken no fewer than 48 of the most popular booter services offline. The operation, known as "Power...
New streaming ad technology plays hide-and-seek with gamers
A new form of digital advertising is looking to make its way to you courtesy of video gaming. However, theres a rather peculiar twist involved. These ads wont appear in front of you while playing; in fact, theyre designed to trigger when someone else is in-game. The most baffling twist of all?...
Looking for student debt relief? Watch out for scammers says the FBI
The FBI believes that scammers may be after people applying for the One-Time Federal Student Loan Debt Relief, a program announced by the Biden-Harris Administration in August 2022 that provides up to $20,000 in student loan debt relief. In a recent public service announcement, the agency warned ...
Microsoft fixes driver blocklist placing users at risk from BYOVD attacks
There may be an all-new acronym for you to try and remember, as a result of Microsoft fixing a lingering issue. This issue is called Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver BYOVD, and BYOVD has been popping up in various forms for the last few months. These attacks may have been less impactful if a...
Security awareness campaign highlights things your bank will never say
If you like anti-phishing efforts, hashtags, and confusing but colourful video games, youll be interested to know that a security initiative involving all three is now live. The American Bankers Association and other banks in the US are involved in an awareness campaign tied in with National...
[update] American Airlines suffers data breach after phishing incident
Major airline American Airlines has fallen victim to a data breach after a threat actor got access to the email accounts of several employees via a phishing attack. According to a published notice of a security incident, the data breach was discovered in July 2022. How it happened American Airlin...
How to help your child manage their online reputation
Whether your child has been socially active online for a while now or you just handed your young one their first ever smartphone, now is an excellent time to think about managing their online reputation. The concept may sound overwhelming, but doing it is easy. Since you're no doubt talking to yo...
Steam account credentials phished in browser-in-a-browser attack
Steam users are once again under threat from a particularly sneaky tactic used to steal account details. As with so many Steam attacks currently, it accommodates for the possibility of users relying on Steam Guard Mobile Authentication for additional protection. It also makes use of a recent...
Ransomware review: August 2022
Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence builds a monthly picture of ransomware activity by monitoring the information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web leak sites. This information represents victims who were successfully attacked but opted not to pay a ransom. As expected, LockBit remaine...
Data broker sued for allegedly selling individuals' sensitive location data
The Federal Trade Commission FTC has sued data broker Kochava for allegedly selling information that would allow for individuals whereabouts to be traced to sensitive locations. The information included location data from hundreds of millions of phones, including sensitive locations that could be...
To settle with the DoJ, Uber must confess to a cover-up. And it did.
Uber covered up the 2016 data breach that affected its 57 million customers and drivers. The confession came as part of the settlement between the DOJ US Department of Justice and the taxi company, which will see it avoid criminal prosecution. In a press release from the DOJ, Uber "admits that it...
The ransomware landscape changes as fewer victims decide to pay
Fewer victims are choosing to pay their ransomware extorters, especially among large enterprises, according to a recent investigation from Coveware. As a result of this, and other circumstances, we can see some shifts in the way that ransomware groups and their affiliates work. Large organization...
Criminals using compromised social media accounts to "post indecent images of children" says UK cybercrime organization
Action Fraud, the UK's national reporting center for fraud and cybercrime, is warning of a very disturbing scam involving social media and "indecent images of children." Details are light, but social media fans should take this as a warning to lock down their accounts immediately...
Google to delete location data of trips to abortion clinics
The historical overturning of Roe v. Wade in June prompted lawmakers and technology companies to respond with deep concern over the future of data. Google is one of those companies. In a post to "The Keyword" blog last week, Google said it will act further in protecting its users privacy by...
City worker loses USB stick containing data on every resident after day of drinking
A person working in the city of Amagasaki, in Western Japan, has mislaid a USB stick which contained data on the citys 460,000 residents. The USB drive was in a bag that went missing during a reported day of drinking and dining at a restaurant last Tuesday. The person reported it to the police th...
Firefox stops advertisers tracking you as you browse, calls itself the most “private and secure major browser”
Cookies are in the news as Mozilla rolls out significant privacy changes for Firefox. The idea is to dramatically lessen the risk of privacy-invading tracking across websites without your knowledge. Tracking cookies have been a hot topic in recent months, as advertisers try switching to other...
Email compromise leads to healthcare data breach at Kaiser Permanente
At least 69,000 people have been impacted by a data breach at Kaiser Permanente, a long-running managed healthcare consortium. The latest in a long-running series of healthcare attacks, the road to stolen data began on April 5 this year with an email compromise. The direct path to data A...
FBI warns of scammers soliciting donations for Ukraine
The FBI recently issued an announcement about a fraudulent scheme that proves there is no low thats too low for scammers. "Criminal actors are taking advantage of the crisis in Ukraine by posing as Ukrainian entities needing humanitarian aid or developing fundraising efforts, including monetary a...
How iPhones can run malware even when they’re off
Most people think that turning off their iPhone - or letting the battery die - means that the phone is, well, off. The thing is, this isnt quite true. In reality, most of the phones functionality has ended, but there are components that mindlessly continue a zombie-like existence, for the most pa...
A week in security (May 2 – 8)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Google, Apple, and Microsoft step hand in hand into a passwordless future OpenSea warns of Discord channel compromise Avoid these Instagram “Get rich with Bitcoin” scams Steer clear of fake premium mobile app unlockers How Instagram scammers talk users out of their...
Watch out for these 3 small business cybersecurity mistakes
May 2 marks the start of National Small Business Week, a week that recognizes "the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and small business owners", and promises to "celebrate the resiliency and tenacity of America’s entrepreneurs." That sounds good to us: Small business are a vital...
It’s legal to scrape public data—US appeals court
Web scraping—the automated extraction of data from websites—has been around for a long time. Simultaneously cursed and praised, with nobody being able to quite land the decisive blow about whether it should be allowed, one way or another. This may have changed, thanks to a recent US appeals court...
Filing your taxes? Be wary of help found through search engines
The deadline for filing your taxes in the US is nearly upon us. April 18 is the very last date that you can afford to hand your tax returns in to the IRS. People will naturally gravitate toward all manner of filing tools to get the job done. But it’s worth noting that sites are lurking in search...
Zloader, another botnet, bites the dust
Microsoft has announced that its Digital Crimes Unit DCU has taken legal and technical action to disrupt a malicious botnet called Zloader. Zloader or Zbot are common names used to refer to any malware related to the ZeuS family. There are a lot of those because the ZeuS banking Trojan source cod...
“Your AppIe lD has been locked” spam email takes you on a website mystery tour
Spam which claims your account has been locked out and needs to be fixed are common. They drive people to phishing campaigns on a daily basis. The mail below follows the same pattern with one key difference. It looks like a phish, but goes somewhere else entirely. No, your Apple ID has not been...
“A little gift for you” SMS spam appears to come from your own phone number
If youve received a spam SMS message sent from your own phone number, dont panic. No, you werent hacked. And youre not the only one who has received such a message, which looks a bit like this: A colleague received this same spam SMS message that has been going around more frequently these past f...
Watch out for LinkedIn fakes who want to get connected
Despite continued warnings of deepfake chaos during major events, things haven’t worked out the way some thought. Those video deepfakes are bad, and they remain bad. Quite simply, nobody is fooled - or at least, nobody able to make a mistaken snap judgement in a way that matters. As much as we ov...
Deepfake Zelenskyy video surfaces on compromised websites
It’s been a long time coming. The worry over deepfake technology being used during times of major upheaval has been alluded to frequently over the last couple of years. The buildup to the US election was peppered by “any moment now…” style warnings of dramatic and plausible deepfake deployment. I...
When fake dating profiles try the military approach
I’ve run into many romance scams over the years. You’ll find them lurking on social media, instant messaging, chatrooms/forums, and many more besides. They’re particularly popular during times of war or natural disaster, as they often dovetail into donation and charity scams. The icing on the cak...
Data breaches leave customers very shaky, report says
Data breaches are one of the most reported cyberattacks against businesses—regardless of size and industry. And while this has highlighted cybersecurity gaps on so many fronts, some companies are still not prioritizing them as they should. Some have scrambled to be compliant but then find...
Yik Yak “cyberbullying”: What can be done?
In August 2021, Yik Yak, the once-popular anonymous social media platform on Android and iOS, made a comeback after shutting its doors in 2017. Six months after its return, its started to gain attention once more, as a result of cyberbullying—the main reason why it declined years ago. However, th...
How to update your drivers and when you need to
Many software vendors have a driver updater in their arsenal. But is it really that important to have the latest computer drivers? Where do you get them? And how do you go about updating? Driver updates fix security and compatibility problems, errors, broken code, and sometimes even add features ...
City: Skylines developers warn of rogue mod
Players of the popular city-building simulator and video game City: Skylines need to check devices for rogue code lurking in mods related to a rework of something called Harmony, essential for modding across several titles. The threat arrives in a broader landscape—video game modding—already know...
Ransomware author releases decryption keys, says goodbye forever
Update 12th February: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that the decryption tool used to unlock files existed prior to the keys being released - this has now been corrected. If you’re unfortunate enough to be caught out by ransomware, the consequences can be devastating. You may ...
Meta blows safety bubble around users after reports of sexual harassment
There’s trouble brewing in the Metaverse, but the trouble isnt a particularly new problem. In fact, it’s been an issue for years - and so have many of the solutions. Strangely, Meta is having to play catch-up where some basic security and safety settings are concerned in the virtual realm. At...
Securitas breached, 3TB of airport employee records exposed
An unsecured AWS server, found open to the public Internet, is the root cause of a huge compromise of data of airport employees in Colombia and Peru. This server, according to a report, belongs to Securitas, a Stockholm-based multinational company that provides security services like security...
Dark Souls servers taken offline over hacking fears
There’s been trouble brewing over the weekend for players of the smash-hit Dark Souls series. PvP servers player vs player were temporarily shut down by the developers after a hack. PvP servers for Dark Souls 3, Dark Souls 2, and Dark Souls: Remastered have been temporarily deactivated to allow t...