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A week in security (August 11 – August 17)_MALWAREBYTES:89E5AEE3F8A831122353545BB89465F1

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Last week on Malwarebytes Labs:

* Italian hotels breached for tens of thousands of scanned IDs
* National Public Data returns after massive Social Security Number leak
* Romance scammers in Ghana charged with more than $100 million in theft
* Netflix scammers target jobseekers to trick them into handing over their Facebook logins
* Russians hacked US courts, say investigators
* Microsoft patches some very important vulnerabilities in August’s patch Tuesday
* WinRAR vulnerability exploited by two different groups
* Scam hunter scammed by tax office impersonators
* That "Amazon Safety Recall" message may well be a scam
* "The worst thing" for online rights: An age-restricted grey web (Lock and Code S06E16)
* Online portal exposed car and personal data, allowed anyone to remotely unlock carslock-cars



Last week on ThreatDown:

* AI has “fully defeated” most of the ways people authenticate



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Published Aug 18, 2025 at 07:01

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