{"id":25084,"date":"2024-08-19T00:10:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T08:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/news-18814\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T00:10:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T08:10:05","slug":"news-18814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/news-18814\/","title":{"rendered":"A week in security (August 12 &#8211; August 18)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week on Malwarebytes Labs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/scams\/2024\/08\/dozens-of-google-products-targeted-by-scammers-via-malicious-search-ads\">Dozens of Google products targeted by scammers via malicious search ads<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/news\/2024\/08\/microsoft-patches-bug-that-could-have-allowed-an-attacker-to-revert-your-computer-back-to-an-older-vulnerable-version\">Microsoft patches bug that could have allowed an attacker to revert your computer back to an older, vulnerable version<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/personal\/2024\/08\/were-making-it-easier-for-you-to-protect-your-identity\">We\u2019re making it easier for you to protect your identity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/news\/2024\/08\/x-accused-of-unlawfully-using-the-personal-data-of-more-than-60-million-users-to-train-its-ai\">X accused of unlawfully using personal data of 60 million+ users to train its AI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/personal\/2024\/08\/malwarebytes-awarded-parent-tested-parent-approved-seal-of-approval\">Malwarebytes awarded Parent Tested Parent Approved Seal of Approval<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/news\/2024\/08\/data-theft-forum-admins-busted-after-flashing-their-cash-in-a-life-of-luxury\">Data theft forum admins busted after flashing their cash in a life of luxury<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/podcast\/2024\/08\/ai-girlfriends-want-to-know-all-about-you-so-might-chatgpt-lock-and-code-s05e17\">AI girlfriends want to know all about you. So might ChatGPT (Lock and Code S05E17)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/personal\/2024\/08\/google-manifest-v3-and-malwarebytes-browser-guard\">Google Manifest V3 and Malwarebytes Browser Guard<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last week on ThreatDown:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.threatdown.com\/blog\/ransomware-payments-on-track-to-smash-1-1-billion-record\/\">Ransomware payments on track to smash $1.1 billion record<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.threatdown.com\/blog\/ransomware-review-august-2024\/\">Ransomware review: August 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.threatdown.com\/blog\/threatdown-expands-protection-to-arm-powered-windows-devices\/\">Malwarebytes expands protection to ARM-powered Windows devices with ThreatDown product portfolio<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.threatdown.com\/blog\/update-now-august-patch-tuesday-tackles-a-host-of-zero-days\/\">Update now! August Patch Tuesday covers several zero-days<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.threatdown.com\/blog\/update-as-soon-as-possible-microsoft-office-flaw-could-leak-ntlm-hashes\">Patch now! Microsoft Office flaw could leak NTLM hashes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay safe!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/news\/2024\/08\/a-week-in-security-august-12-august-18\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A list of topics we covered in the week of August 12 to August 18 of 2024 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[1670,4765,32,31806,19245,3765],"class_list":["post-25084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-google","tag-identity","tag-news","tag-ntlm","tag-patch-tuesday","tag-ransomware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}