The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a complaint accusing Digital Forensics Corporation of exploiting people already targeted by sextortionists. We have talked about sextortion and recovery ...

You ignored the suspicious email. You didn’t open the attachment, click the link, or reply to the sender. Then you asked your AI assistant to summarize your inbox. Could the message you wisely avoided ...

Maybe it’s a text saying your package couldn’t be delivered, with a link to reschedule. Or an email from your bank asking you to verify your account. Or perhaps it’s an invitation from someone you ...

On October 13 and 14, Google issued several Chrome updates. Most users are on Chrome’s Stable channel. The desktop update brings Chrome to versions 155.0.8059.79/.80 for Windows and Mac and 155.0.8059 ...

Norway’s privacy regulator Datatilsynet has fined advertising technology company Xandr 92 million Norwegian kroner, approximately $9.6 million, for unlawfully processing and sharing sensitive ...

Police tip hotlines already have their fair share of crank callers. Apparently they now have to contend with crank AI agents as well. Claude’s Haiku 4.5 model filed a false tip in an unsolved ...

Amazon’s “About You” page reveals what it thinks it knows about you—and you can’t simply switch it off. Dexerto reports that one shopper discovered her profile included the observation: “has flat ...

The customer data stolen from global fashion retailer ASOS includes more than just names and contact details, raising questions about its early reassurances. As we reported earlier this week, ASOS ...

Blocks web pages that contain malware, stops in-browser cryptojackers (unwanted cryptocurrency miners), and gives other malicious content the boot. Identifies and stops browser lockers, browser ...

Suppose that, out of the blue, a Steam user tells you they’ve accidentally reported you for something you didn’t do, like making an illegal purchase, and that your Steam account is going to be ...

In our previous analysis of the malicious RenPy campaigns, we identified a multi-stage loader deployed as part of the infection chain. Further threat hunting has since shown that the same loader, ...

A convincing fake version of the popular Mac utility CleanMyMac is tricking users into installing malware. The site instructs visitors to paste a command into Terminal. If they do, it installs SHub ...