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11/03/2026

If you bought an inexpensive Android TV box online, it's worth five minutes of your evening to check it.

Google says a Chinese device maker called Videostrong built a hidden backdoor into the software of TV boxes it made for many brands, then sold access to criminals. They used people's boxes, and their home internet connections, for ad fraud and to pass strangers' traffic through. Google and its partners shut down the servers controlling the boxes last week, but the backdoor is still on the devices, it puts itself back after a restart, and owners can't remove it themselves.

Researchers at TrendAI counted about 1.47 million infected boxes across 206 models. Another research firm, Synthient, traced it through a MECOOL brand box.

At home, we'd start by finding your box's brand and model and comparing it with Synthient's published model list on GitHub. If it's on there, or it's an off-brand box you can't identify, unplug it and replace it with one from a known brand that's Play Protect certified. Putting smart TVs and other gadgets on your router's guest network is a good habit too, since it makes it harder for one bad device to reach your laptop or phone.

11/03/2026

Someone calls or texts saying you have an unclaimed "relief check," then pushes a website so you can "search your name" before the money gets returned. Hang up.

BBB Scam Tracker has more than 900 reports of this. One logged message starts, "Hey, it's Dan from www.myreliefcheck.com," and claims $5,286 is waiting. The site isn't a real government program. It harvests your ZIP code, phone number, email address, and home address, then piles on junk offers. BBB now also sees "Dan" pointing people to myreliefclaim.com with the same pitch.

Real agencies don't cold-call you about unclaimed money and send you to a random website. If you think something might actually be waiting, look up the agency yourself on its official .gov page.

Know a parent who answers unknown numbers? Send them this. Got one of these calls lately? Tell us what they said.

11/02/2026

Got an email saying "Your purchase of $450.57 was processed," with a number to call if it wasn't you? Don't call it.

Callback scams have gotten sneakier. Some now ride inside real emails from real services, a PayPal invoice for example, so the sender address checks out and the usual "look at who sent it" advice won't save you.

The trap is the phone number. Whoever answers offers a refund and then wants to get on your computer, or wants your bank login.

Ignore the number. Open your bank app or the store's site yourself, and if the charge isn't there, delete the email and move on.

If you know someone who answers every email, send them this. And if one of these landed in your inbox lately, tell us what it said.

10/29/2026

Your phone number can be stolen without anyone touching your phone.

It's called port-out fraud, and the FCC has a warning out about it. A scammer calls your phone company pretending to be you and moves your number over to their own phone. From then on, your bank's "was this you?" calls and texts go to them.

One retired couple's landline suddenly went dead. Two days later, a $4,800 cash advance they never asked for hit their bank account. The scammers had answered the bank's confirmation call themselves. (The bank did refund them, eventually.)

Here's the one thing to do this week: call your phone company, or open its app, and ask for a PIN or password on your account, plus a number lock if they offer one.

And if your phone ever loses service out of nowhere, call your carrier and your bank that same day.

Share this with anyone who still keeps a landline. Questions? Ask us in the comments.

10/28/2026

The nastiest malware doesn't leave a file behind.

This week we caught a hacker's remote-control program on a computer we protect. That's the kind of thing that lets someone sneak in and run a computer from far away.

Here's the wild part. It never saved a single file. It lived only in the computer's short-term memory and hid its messages home inside normal-looking web traffic. Regular antivirus checks files against a list of known bad ones. No file means nothing to check.

Our autonomous security agents caught it anyway, start to finish. One was combing through what Guardian sees, noticed something didn't look right, pulled the thread, confirmed it, and removed it.

Bad stuff can hide what it is. It can't hide what it does.

10/28/2026

That "free Halloween decorating kit" email isn't from Tractor Supply.

Security researchers at Bitdefender tracked a wave of fake Halloween offers this fall. One borrows Tractor Supply's name and promises a "Free Ultimate Halloween Decorating Kit." Another uses Costco's name and asks you to take a quick survey for a Halloween set. Neither company has anything to do with them.

Here's the catch. The survey is free. Then you "win," and there's a small shipping fee. That fee, and the card number you type in to pay it, is what they're really after.

Our rule of thumb: if a store is truly giving something away, you'll find it on the store's own app or website. Type the address in yourself instead of tapping the link.

Know someone who loves a good freebie? Send them this. And tell us in the comments what's landed in your inbox this week.

10/27/2026

Run your online store on Magento or Adobe Commerce? This one deserves a few minutes of your day.

CISA, the U.S. government's cyber defense agency, just added a Magento flaw called PolyShell to its list of bugs criminals are actively using. Adobe released the fix back on July 14. Researchers at Sansec say attackers used it to plant malicious code on 471 stores.

Updating closes the hole. It won't kick out anyone who's already in. So after you patch, check for admin accounts nobody recognizes and odd code in your site's content blocks.

Not sure which version you're on? Ask your web developer, or ask us.

One more thing: if your developer builds with Node.js, ask them to update that too. There's a separate actively exploited bug there.

10/27/2026

If a text says you're not registered to vote, don't tap the link.

This is our Scam of the week, and it's timed to the Nov. 3 election. The FBI warned about it on Oct. 15. The text claims you're not registered in your state and offers a link to fix it. The link goes to a fake registration page that asks for your personal information. They want your details for identity theft.

The tells: it came out of nowhere, it's in a hurry, and it wants a click.

What to do instead: type vote.gov into your browser yourself and check there, or call your county board of elections.

One more from the same FBI warning: a campaign donation is never an investment. Anyone promising a payout when their candidate wins is running a scam.

Send this to your parents and grandparents before one lands on their phone.

10/27/2026

Apple released big security updates on Monday, Oct 26, and they're worth a few minutes of your time. iOS 27.2 fixes 163 security issues and macOS 27.2 fixes 263. That sounds scary, but Apple's notes don't mark any of them as used in attacks.

iPhone: plug it in, connect to Wi-Fi, open Settings, tap General, tap Software Update, then tap Download and Install.

Mac: click the Apple menu, choose System Settings, click General, click Software Update, then click the update button. Apple suggests a backup first.

Have an iPhone XS, XS Max or XR? Your update is iOS 18.7.11. It fixes one bug that Apple says may have been used in an attack on specific targeted people, so please don't skip it.

Stuck? Ask us.

10/26/2026

If you work for a school, or love someone who does, read this one.

Frontline Education makes software a lot of school districts use for staff records and school health records. In August, someone got into part of its systems. Districts say Frontline starts notifying affected people by email and mail on Oct 26. The info may include Social Security numbers, home addresses and birthdates. (In at least one district, some students too.)

Not every district was hit, only ones that used Frontline Central or School Health Management.

If a letter shows up, don't panic. Do one thing: freeze your credit at Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. It's free, it won't touch your score, and it makes it a lot harder for someone to open a new account in your name.

And if an email "about the breach" wants a click or a payment, call your district's HR first.

Tag a teacher you know.

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