A week in security (August 19 – August 25)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs:
- Millennials’ sense of privacy uniquely tested in romantic relationships
- Hacked GPS tracker reveals location data of customers
- “We will hold them accountable”: General Motors sued for selling customer driving data to third parties
- Why you need to know about ransomware
- Toyota confirms customer and employee data stolen, says breach at third party to blame
- National Public Data leaked passwords online
- Man certifies his own (fake) death after hacking into registry system using stolen identity
- My child had her data stolen—here’s how to protect your kids from identity theft
- Fraudulent Slack ad shows malvertiser’s patience and skills
- Google patches actively exploited zero-day in Chrome. Update now!
- Hundreds of online stores hacked in new campaign
- Fake funeral “live stream” scams target grieving users on Facebook
Last week on ThreatDown:
- Ransomware payments on track to smash $1.1 billion record
- https://www.threatdown.com/blog/after-ransomware-how-nello-revamped-its-security-in-the-aftermath-of-a-devastating-cyberattack/
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