Mac and Windows users, don’t click on pictures—or type out text that has been distorted—before you read this. Some important safety advice about how the scam works: The CAPTCHA scam shows a fake CAPTCHA pop-up on a malicious website that looks like the real website for a legitimate company, such as Amazon.com or Facebook.com. But […]
Express reports: Google has just confirmed the release of an important update that all Chrome users should install immediately. The important new software patch fixes a whopping 213 security issues, including 7 that Google has branded critical. According to the team at Malwarebytes, a number of the bugs could allow cyber crooks to run remote […]
If you use LastPass as your password manager, you should read a post by TechRadar that begins: Be careful when downloading the LastPass Authenticator app – there are impostors out there that can disable your antivirus and wreak havoc on your computer. LastPass recently discovered an elaborate scheme to get people infected with malware – […]
The Register reports: Researchers affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst have found that you can get payments out of certain expired contactless credit cards, a process detailed at the recent USENIX Security 2026 conference. Raja Hasnain Anwar, Gerard DeCunha, and Muhammad Taqi Raza describe their findings in a paper titled “Zombie Cards Back Online: Reviving Expired […]
~this week in security~ reports a hack that should remind consumers to use an ad blocker when they browse the internet: Online ads provider Adform was hacked. On July 27, the company began serving ads containing malicious code. The company says in its annual report that its serves 1.5 billion ads to people’s devices daily. […]
Bleeping Computer reports: Threat actors are using email addresses exposed in data breaches leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group to send sextortion emails demanding $2,000 in Bitcoin. The emails claim to come from ShinyHunters and tell recipients that hackers compromised their devices after obtaining their email addresses from breached company databases. However, the messages appear […]
TechTimes reports: Notification letters from a company called AssuranceAmerica began arriving in mailboxes on July 10 — and if one reached yours, you are among 6,998,886 people whose driver’s license numbers, insurance records, and in many cases Social Security numbers were stolen in a March cyberattack. The breach is the largest known exposure of Americans’ […]
Don’t be too impressed or too trusting of advice from a chatbot. The Conversation reports: Consider the following scenario. Suzy is 63, recently retired, and trying to decide when to start receiving Social Security and how to manage her retirement savings to minimize the tax hit. She opens an AI chatbot, types in the details and gets a […]
The Register reports: Six people suspected of bank helpdesk fraud are in custody after Dutch cops stormed an Amsterdam residence and caught them in conversation with a potential victim. Police say the individuals were aged between 15 and 30 and operated out of a makeshift call center they had established in an Amsterdam home. Authorities […]
Malwarebytes reports: A convincing fake website is impersonating OpenAI’s ChatGPT download page and infecting visitors with malware designed to steal passwords, browser data, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive information. The site, openew[.]app, closely mimics OpenAI’s real ChatGPT download experience and offers what appear to be official desktop apps for both Windows and macOS. Instead, Windows users […]
