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Categories: Business We're excited to announce Report 2.0, a major upgrade to our report system in Nebula. (Read more...) The post Unveiling Nebula's Report 2.0: A new approach to security reporting appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Personal Tags: sextortion Tags: deepfake Tags: FBI Tags: blackmail Tags: extortion Tags: fake Tags: fakes Tags: synthetic We take a look at some new developments in sextortion cases via a warning issued by the FBI. (Read more...) The post Warning: Victims' faces placed on explicit images in sextortion scam appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: Google Tags: Chrome Tags: V8 Tags: heap corruption Tags: type confusion Tags: CVE-2023-3079 Google has released a Chrome update for a zero-day for which an exploit is actively being used in the wild. (Read more...) The post Update Chrome now! Google patches actively exploited zero-day appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Threat Intelligence Tags: facebook Tags: posts Tags: google Tags: cloud run Clickbait posts on Facebook can lead to malicious websites. In this campaign, crooks are redirecting Facebook victims to scam pages hosted on Google's infrastructure. (Read more...) The post Facebook clickbait leads to money scam for users appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Personal Tags: Microsoft Tags: Xbox Tags: privacy Tags: children Tags: COPPA Tags: FTC Tags: fine Tags: settlement Tags: games console Tags: gaming Tags: video games Microsoft is counting the cost of privacy violations, with $20m in fines related to illegal data collection from children’s Xbox accounts. (Read more...) The post Microsoft illegally collected and retained children's data, says FTC appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Categories: Ransomware Tags: Progress Tags: MOVEit Tags: Transfer Tags: CVE-2023-34362 Tags: BBC Tags: Zellis Tags: BA The first victims of the ongoing attacks on vulnerable MOVEit Transfer instances are coming forward. The Cl0p ransomware gang claims it is behind the attacks. (Read more...) The post Cl0p ransomware gang claims first victims of the MOVEit vulnerability appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News Categories: Ransomware In the last 12 months, the Vice Society ransomware gang has conducted more known attacks against education targets globally, and in the USA and the UK individually, than any other ransomware group. (Read more...) The post Vice Society: The #1 cyberthreat to schools, colleges, and universities appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Business Tags: globalcaja Tags: play ransomware Tags: compromise Tags: data Tags: leak Tags: ransom Tags: bank Tags: banking Tags: Spain Tags: Spanish A large Spanish bank, Globalcaja, has fallen victim to the Play ransomware gang. (Read more...) The post Play ransomware gang compromises Spanish bank, threatens to leak files appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News A new web skimming campaign uses compromised legitimate sites to act as command and control servers. (Read more...) The post Information stealer compromises legitimate sites to attack other sites appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Threat Intelligence In total, 26 separate ransomware-as-a-service gangs contributed to the onslaught on education. (Read more...) The post The 2023 State of Ransomware in Education: 84% increase in attacks over 6-month period appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.