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Malwarebytes

Malwarebytes is a cybersecurity company that makes anti-malware and mobile security software, researching malware and online threats.

Known aliases

  • Malwarebytes
  • malwarebytes.com
  • Malwarebytes Inc.
  • Malwarebytes Labs
  • Malwarebytes Mobile Security
  • Malwarebytes researchers
  • Malwarebytes Support
  • Malwarebytes team
  • Malwarebytes Threat Intel

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current stories

security1 publisher

ShinyHunters' leak samples expose named FBI agents' medical exams

ShinyHunters has shown journalists FBI medical exams that name agents and their addresses, from a set it says covers about 60,000 current and former staff. The FBI has so far confirmed only an incident in FBIJobs-related systems, and the group is threatening to publish within five days.

Publishers:malwarebytes.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+20
Incentives60
Confidence45
security3 publishers

CARBONATO botnet infects Docker hosts, prioritizing theft of AI provider API keys

CARBONATO, a Docker botnet running since October 2024, hijacks hosts on open port 2375 and steals keys from 14 AI providers to fund its own LLM gateway. ThreatDown found the crew's own container registry exposed, handing defenders 4.3 GB of its toolchain.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 33%
Operator
Operator 57%
Investor
Investor 10%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+20
Incentives35
Confidence60
security4 publishers

Apple's spyware alerts reached 110 countries, and they land on people, not fleets

Apple's latest mercenary spyware notifications went to users in 110 countries. The response checklist is per-person, and a standard MDM baseline covers almost none of it.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 16%
Operator
Operator 79%
Investor
Investor 5%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives40
Confidence65
security3 publishers

Card-present fraud without the card: WindRelay relays NFC from the victim's own phone

Group-IB says a 13-minute call ended with a loan in the victim's name and card data streaming to a fake merchant terminal, every transaction approved with the victim's own PIN.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 27%
Operator
Operator 63%
Investor
Investor 10%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption20
Hype gap+10
Incentives40
Confidence65
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ToxicPanda 2.0 Widens From 16 Apps to 140, and From Overlays to ADB Shell

Zimperium says the Android banking Trojan now abuses Accessibility to switch on wireless debugging and run commands through the ADB daemon. The target list is the smaller half of the story.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 28%
Operator
Operator 67%
Investor
Investor 5%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+12
Incentives55
Confidence64
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Attackers move the ClickFix paste into Windows Terminal to land a multi-stage intrusion chain

Microsoft's TerminalFix writeup shows the same fake CAPTCHA lure now feeding multi-line PowerShell into Windows Terminal, where it sideloads a signed binary, pulls payloads out of PNG files and leaves a reverse tunnel behind.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 20%
Operator
Operator 75%
Investor
Investor 5%

Reality

Evidence65
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+20
Incentives30
Confidence65
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Attackers are exploiting a medium-rated V8 write in Chrome's 230-fix release

CVE-2026-87491 gives a crafted web page code execution inside Chrome's sandbox. The fix only takes effect when the browser restarts, and long-running sessions carry that exposure until they do.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 14%
Operator
Operator 80%
Investor
Investor 6%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap0
Incentives30
Confidence70

Earlier coverage

  1. Gigabud creates an Android work profile to put its fake bank app out of the scanner's reach

    Security · September 10, 2026 · 3 publishers

  2. A hijacked HBO Max Reddit account pushed 108 ClickFix ads to Windows and macOS users

    Security · September 14, 2026 · 5 publishers

  3. Malwarebytes found AI handover notes left in the code of a fake Avast renewal page

    Security · September 16, 2026 · 2 publishers

  4. Kothamine RAT tunnels its commands through Tailscale's tailcat

    Security · September 25, 2026 · 1 publisher

  5. A placeholder domain from W3C specs and MCP docs is serving ClickFix PowerShell lures

    Security · September 23, 2026 · 2 publishers

  6. OpenAI counted 27 work summaries where a model instructed itself to ignore its developer

    Security · September 19, 2026 · 8 publishers

  7. RatHat self-pairs Android's debug bridge to survive its own uninstall

    Security · September 18, 2026 · 6 publishers

  8. More than 100 look-alike subscription sites use genuine Google sign-in, with prices from under $10/month to over $2,000/year

    Security · September 21, 2026 · 2 publishers

  9. Device code phishing collects tokens from a sign-in page that is genuinely Microsoft's

    Security · September 23, 2026 · 1 publisher

  10. Fake Claude Max giveaway harvests Google logins through a window it draws itself

    Security · September 23, 2026 · 2 publishers

  11. Researchers hijacked cheap smart glasses' cameras by pairing before the owner's phone did

    Security · September 22, 2026 · 1 publisher

  12. Revolut phishing page requests camera access before imitating the bank's liveness check

    Security · September 21, 2026 · 1 publisher

  13. Trusting the repository author in VS Code runs the fake recruiter's task file

    Build · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher

  14. Fake bpost customs email escalates a EUR4.95 duty into a request for card and bank details

    Security · September 18, 2026 · 1 publisher

  15. Hackers unlocked thousands of Flock detections with a key found on the camera itself

    Security · September 18, 2026 · 1 publisher

  16. Fake T-Mobile points-expiry texts rotated through at least 81 .top domains in four months

    Security · September 17, 2026 · 1 publisher

  17. Meta AI's suggested question assembled two children's names, birth dates and a deleted photo

    Security · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher

  18. Fake Bitrefill checkouts collect crypto from buyers who arrive through search results

    Security · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher

  19. Hundreds of OpenAI contractors read whole ChatGPT conversations to score the model's replies

    Security · September 14, 2026 · 2 publishers

  20. Fraudulent copyright strikes suspend Instagram accounts weeks before Meta unwinds them

    Security · September 10, 2026 · 1 publisher

  21. Talos ties a fake Google CAPTCHA to a DLL executing from a remote WebDAV share

    Security · September 8, 2026 · 1 publisher

  22. Gamers Nexus teardown finds LG TVs inventorying the LAN they sit on

    Security · September 8, 2026 · 2 publishers

  23. X says attackers may be exploiting X Money launch amid wave of unrequested password-reset emails

    Security · September 4, 2026 · 1 publisher

  24. Popanet code in SuperBox's CyberFlix TV app enlists home connections as proxy exit nodes

    Security · September 4, 2026 · 1 publisher

  25. California hands app developers a four-bracket age signal starting 1 January 2027

    Security · September 3, 2026 · 1 publisher

  26. Chatbot Logs Are Entering Discovery. OpenAI's User-Content Disclosures Quadrupled.

    Security · September 2, 2026 · 1 publisher

  27. A fake GTA 6 countdown page loads a seven-chain wallet drainer on arrival

    Security · September 1, 2026 · 1 publisher

  28. WhatsApp's billion passkey logins still fall back to a six-digit PIN

    Security · August 28, 2026 · 1 publisher

  29. Scammers rented BuzzFeed's reputation to impersonate Malwarebytes support

    Security · August 27, 2026 · 1 publisher

  30. Fake Apple Pay receipt reads a $657 charge aloud through the iPhone's own speech engine

    Security · August 27, 2026 · 1 publisher

  31. Chrome 152 ships 327 fixes and ten criticals, and the restart is the only one that counts

    Security · August 26, 2026 · 2 publishers

  32. The fake Indeed interview app that stops you uninstalling it

    Security · August 26, 2026 · 1 publisher

  33. Take-Two's GTA 6 leak subpoena turns Discord and Microsoft logs into a device-level ID list

    Security · August 25, 2026 · 1 publisher

  34. PavinLoader: the lures keep changing, the MSBuild stage does not

    Security · August 24, 2026 · 1 publisher

  35. The refund scam that asks you to uninstall your antivirus, then writes down which one

    Security · August 24, 2026 · 1 publisher

  36. A trailer date is a campaign schedule: fake GTA 6 sites are selling stolen session cookies

    Security · August 24, 2026 · 1 publisher

  37. The $149.99 pop-up copies Apple's design system, which makes it support's problem

    Product · August 22, 2026 · 1 publisher

  38. CareCloud's breach count grew almost 11x, five months after the first filing

    Security · August 21, 2026 · 1 publisher

  39. Dutch regulator tells Twitch users to switch off Amazon's default-on AI training

    Security · August 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  40. OpenAI's 13-17 tier turns teen AI safety into an age-assurance problem

    Security · August 20, 2026 · 1 publisher