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Categories: Personal Tags: Microsoft Tags: Xbox Tags: privacy Tags: children Tags: COPPA Tags: FTC Tags: fine Tags: settlement Tags: games console Tags: gaming Tags: video games Microsoft is counting the cost of privacy violations, with $20m in fines related to illegal data collection from children’s Xbox accounts. (Read more...) The post Microsoft illegally collected and retained children's data, says FTC appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Categories: Ransomware Tags: Progress Tags: MOVEit Tags: Transfer Tags: CVE-2023-34362 Tags: BBC Tags: Zellis Tags: BA The first victims of the ongoing attacks on vulnerable MOVEit Transfer instances are coming forward. The Cl0p ransomware gang claims it is behind the attacks. (Read more...) The post Cl0p ransomware gang claims first victims of the MOVEit vulnerability appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News Categories: Ransomware In the last 12 months, the Vice Society ransomware gang has conducted more known attacks against education targets globally, and in the USA and the UK individually, than any other ransomware group. (Read more...) The post Vice Society: The #1 cyberthreat to schools, colleges, and universities appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Business Tags: globalcaja Tags: play ransomware Tags: compromise Tags: data Tags: leak Tags: ransom Tags: bank Tags: banking Tags: Spain Tags: Spanish A large Spanish bank, Globalcaja, has fallen victim to the Play ransomware gang. (Read more...) The post Play ransomware gang compromises Spanish bank, threatens to leak files appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News A new web skimming campaign uses compromised legitimate sites to act as command and control servers. (Read more...) The post Information stealer compromises legitimate sites to attack other sites appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Threat Intelligence In total, 26 separate ransomware-as-a-service gangs contributed to the onslaught on education. (Read more...) The post The 2023 State of Ransomware in Education: 84% increase in attacks over 6-month period appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Personal It’s time to shake off that special feeling, start lying, forget everything you’ve been told about passwords, spin up a million email addresses, and start throwing away computers for fun. (Read more...) The post 5 unusual cybersecurity tips that actually work appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Podcast This week on Lock and Code, we ask whether AI can lie and whether companies and individuals are placing too much trust into tools like ChatGPT. (Read more...) The post Trusting AI not to lie: The cost of truth: Lock and Code S04E12 appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: News Tags: week in security A list of topics we covered in the week of May 29 - June 4 of 2023 (Read more...) The post A week in security (May 29 - June 4) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: Progress Tags: MOVEit Tags: vulnerability Tags: human2.aspx A critical vulnerability in Progress MOVEit Transfer is being used to steal large amounts of data (Read more...) The post Update now! MOVEit Transfer vulnerability actively exploited appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.