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Categories: Podcast This week on Lock and Code, we speak with author and Twitter pro Becky Holmes about how she teases, fights, and shuts down online romance scammers. (Read more...) The post "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 appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News Categories: Privacy Tags: WhatsApp Tags: Online Safety Bill Tags: encryption Tags: Signal end-to-end encryption Tags: private messaging With the UK's Online Safety Bill set to become law this year, WhatsApp is standing its ground against weakening encryption. (Read more...) The post WhatsApp refuses to weaken encryption, would rather leave UK appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News Categories: Ransomware Tags: ALPHV Tags: BlackCat Tags: Lehigh Valley Health Network Tags: LVHN Russia-linked ransomware group ALPHV has leaked the data it stole from Lehigh Valley Health Network, including clinical photos of women undergoing breast cancer treatment. (Read more...) The post Breast cancer photos published by ransomware gang appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News The most interesting security related news from the week of March 6 to 12. (Read more...) The post A week in security (March 6 - 12) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News Researchers at Mandiant have identified a campaign that persisted on SonicWall SMA 100 Series appliances tenaciously. (Read more...) The post Malware targeting SonicWall devices could survive firmware updates appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News Categories: Privacy Speaking at a US Senate hearing on Wednesday, General Paul Nakasone, Director of the NSA, said one sixth of American youth say they're constantly on TikTok. That's a loaded gun. (Read more...) The post TikTok "a loaded gun" says NSA appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Android Categories: News Tags: Android Tags: 2023-03-05 Tags: RCE Tags: EoP Tags: CVE-2023-20951 Tags: CVE-2023-20954 Tags: CVE-2022-33213 Tags: CVE-2022-33256 Tags: CVE-2021-33655 The March security updates for Android include fixes for two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. Update as soon as you can! (Read more...) The post Update Android now! Two critical vulnerabilities patched appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Ransomware Categories: Threat Intelligence February 2023 saw a record number of victims for LockBit, a record high ransom demand, and a devastating assault on the City of Oakland. (Read more...) The post Ransomware review: March 2023 appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Threat Intelligence A network of online video streaming sites are monetizing traffic with hidden ads. The problem? Advertisers are throwing up to a million dollars every month down the drain as nobody is even seeing the ads. (Read more...) The post DeepStreamer: Illegal movie streaming platforms hide lucrative ad fraud operation appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News Categories: Ransomware Tags: Europol Tags: FBI Tags: police Tags: arrests Tags: DoppelPaymer Tags: Emotet Tags: Dridex In cooperation with the FBI, European police agencies have made arrests that disrupt the DoppelPaymer ransomware operation (Read more...) The post DoppelPaymer ransomware group disrupted by FBI and European police agencies appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.