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 is a recipe for disaster
- LinkedIn will use your data to train its AI unless you opt out now
- TikTok is misusing kids’ data, says privacy watchdog
- Police using drones to read your license plates, warns EFF
- Malwarebytes for Teams now includes VPN
- Fake Malwarebytes, LastPass, and others on GitHub serve malware
- Can you disappear online? (Lock and Code S06E19)
- American Archive of Public Broadcasting allowed access to restricted media for years
- Scammers are impersonating the FBI to steal your personal data
- Beware of Zelle transfer scams
- ChatGPT solves CAPTCHAs if you tell it they’re fake
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