Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Protect your WhatsApp account with new passkey and 2FA upgrades The AI agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face is a warning for the future Flock wants privacy to meet surveillance halfway Fake listings can turn trusted platforms into scam springboards Fake Apple Pay charge brings the classic tech support scam […]

Healthcare and pharmaceutical-distribution giant McKesson has disclosed a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to third-party applications and the theft of data. McKesson Corporation is an American healthcare company that distributes pharmaceuticals and provides medical supplies, health information technology, and care management tools. McKesson says it discovered the cybersecurity incident on August 25, 2026, and that […]

Attackers typically try to pass off malware as legitimate applications or as potentially unwanted programs that users deliberately search for and download, such as cheats or cracks. They often rely on ad and affiliate networks to deliver their creations to victims’ devices. This post examines a less conventional case: a well-known backdoor distributed under the […]

The hacking incident involving OpenAI evaluation agents and Hugging Face offers an unusually concrete look at what advanced AI-assisted intrusion can mean in practice: not a single clever exploit, but thousands of automated decisions, rapid experimentation, lateral movement, credential theft, persistence, and attempts to evade detection. The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident began during internal cybersecurity evaluations […]

WhatsApp announced on August 25 that more than one billion people now use passkeys to log back into the app. The announcement included two other security upgrades: a stronger two-step verification method and more context for incoming calls from unknown numbers. It marks one of the largest passwordless authentication rollouts to date. Passkeys are now […]

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley says the United States needs a “compromise” between privacy and public safety. It’s a neat phrase, except I don’t like to see “compromise” and “privacy” that close together. “When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize […]

All threats In Q2 2026, the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked continued to decrease, falling to 19.15%, its lowest level since 2022. Percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked, Q3 2023–Q2 2026 Regionally, the percentages ranged from 8.1% in Northern Europe to 27.9% in Africa. Regions ranked […]

Meta decided that discretion was the better part of valor on Wednesday, agreeing to settle a landmark child safety case for up to $17 billion. The agreement would introduce a default two-hour daily limit for teens on Instagram and Facebook, overnight restrictions, and a range of other protections. It also brings the trial to an […]

iPhone users are being targeted in a new tech support scam, using a fake Apple Pay notification to trick users. Tech support scams that use fake warnings to push victims into calling a phone number have been around for years, but this page has been designed specifically for phones. Instead of a desktop warning claiming […]

Recently, we found a listing on BuzzFeed from someone pretending to be Malwarebytes Support. It reminded us why we need to be cautious about content on platforms where anyone can create an entry. Based on the phone number, we suspect the people behind this listing are trying to draw callers into a tech support scam. […]