A week in security (September 8 – September 14)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs:

• AI browsers or agentic browsers: a look at the future of web surfing
• From Fitbit to financial despair: How one woman lost her life savings and more to a scammer
• Meta ignored child sex abuse in VR, say whistleblowers
• When AI chatbots leak and how it happens
• Fake Bureau of Motor Vehicles texts are after your personal and banking details
• ‘Astronaut-in-distress’ romance scammer steals money from elderly woman
• Ransomware attack at blood center: Org tells users their data’s been stolen
• Pre-approved GLP-1 prescription scam could be bad for your health
• Plex users: Reset your password!
• Popeyes, Tim Hortons, Burger King platforms have “catastrophic” vulnerabilities, say hackers
• Google misled users about their privacy and now owes them $425m, says court
• This “insidious” police tech claims to predict crime (Lock and Code S06E18)
• iCloud Calendar infrastructure abused in PayPal phishing campaign

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