Stalkerware app TheTruthSpy has been hacked for the fourth time, once again leaking the sensitive data it captures.
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How to lock out your ex-partner from your smart home
Your smart devices may reveal information about you or your location to an ex-partner. Here’s how to lock them out.
Stalkerware activity drops as glaring spying problem is revealed
North America has a spying problem. Its perpetrators are everyday people. According to recent research from Malwarebytes, 62 percent of people in…
CISA catalog passes 1,000 known-to-be-exploited vulnerabilities. Celebration time, or is it?
On September 18, 2023, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced that its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog has reached the milestone of covering…
Server breach could be fatal blow for LetMeSpy
A mobile app designed to let people spy on others will shortly be going out of business after a server breach…
60,000 Androids have stalkerware-type app Spyhide installed
Stalkerware-type app Spyhide is coded so badly that it’s possible to gain access to the back-end databases and retrieve data about everyone…
Stalkerware-type app developers fined by NY Attorney General
Stalkerware is a huge problem when it comes to intrusion into people’s personal lives. “Friends”, strangers, family members, abusive spouses and many…
A week in security (June 13 – June 19)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Stay safe!
Photos of kids taken from spyware-ridden phones found exposed on the internet
A stalkerware-type app that boasts “the best free phone spying software on the market,” has exposed the data it snooped on…
Stalkerware-type detections hit record high in 2021, but fell in second half
After having tracked stalkerware for years, Malwarebytes can reveal that in 2021, detections for apps that can non-consensually monitor another person’s…