Malwarebytes roundup flags AI password flaws and surge in scams

Malwarebytes Labs’ weekly round-up for 16–22 February highlights a spread of security stories, from Persona’s age-verification backend exposing sensitive identity checks to concerns about AI-generated passwords being highly predictable. The piece notes that Tenga spilled customer data and that Meta patent ideas could keep users posting from beyond the grave, while Betterment data breaches are described as possibly worse than previously thought.

It also flags a surge in social engineering with a job scam that harvests Google logins via fake Google Forms, and warns of scammers using a fake Gemini AI chatbot to peddle a supposed Google Coin.

Other items cover Chrome preloading leaking data and triggering issues in Browser Guard, a zero-day bug enabling code execution via malicious pages prompting Chrome updates, and technical mischief such as a hobby coder creating a vacuum robot army and ClickFix adding nslookup commands to download RATs. according to Malwarebytes Labs, the week’s articles illustrate a broad spectrum of threats facing users and businesses alike.