Fake CAPTCHA scam turns a quick click into a costly phone bill
2026-04-28T20:52:05Z•ad257933dba3d380713f69c9b8c763e55ad841fcb8d5c8047ae8154034fbb601
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What happened
A Malwarebytes Labs roundup covering multiple active threats and incidents: scammers using fake CAPTCHA pages to generate costly international SMS charges; a Chinese engineer who impersonated US researchers and exfiltrated military and NASA source code; medical data for ~500,000 UK Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba; trojanized/fake installers (Slack, Google Antigravity, TradingView-themed site) delivering browser‑takeover malware, RATs and rapid account theft; an iOS bug that allowed recovery of deleted notifications (including Signal previews) patched by Apple; claims that Claude
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- malwarebytes_labs
- Record identifier
- ad257933dba3d380713f69c9b8c763e55ad841fcb8d5c8047ae8154034fbb601
- Enrichment time
- 2026-04-28T20:52:05Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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