Tag: malware

🚨 Holiday travel without the headaches

Holiday trip coming up? Here’s the travel gear I’d pack to stay charged, safe and comfy from takeoff to touchdown.

Hackers stole $6.3 billion with one fake job interview. Here’s how the trap works and how to spot it before you download anything.

A friendly recruiter, a real job site, two rounds of interviews and a “take-home test.” That test was malware, and it opened the door to the biggest crypto heist ever. Here are the red flags every job hunter needs to know, plus the protection that checks files before they can do damage.

A new fake store goes live every three minutes, and the Black Friday ones are already open. Here’s how to spot one before you pay.

Real logos, real product photos, a countdown clock and nothing ever arrives. One scam checker flagged more than 100,000 fake shopping sites this year. Here are the five tells of a fake store, plus the free move that gets your money back.

Your Social Security number sells for $1 on the dark web. Here’s the full price list for your identity and how to make it worthless to crooks.

A new dark web price index shows crooks buy your Social Security number for less than a cup of coffee. Your medical record costs more. Here’s the menu and how to get off it.

153 million driver’s license scans hit the dark web. Your ID may be in the pile, and you never chose the company that had it.

You handed your license to a rental desk or a package counter. A middleman you never heard of kept a copy. Now crooks are selling it. Here’s why watching your SSN alone isn’t enough anymore.

Google caught malware that uses AI to rewrite itself every hour. Here’s why your free antivirus may never see it coming, and the 10-minute fix.

Google caught malware that asks AI to rewrite its own code every hour, friend. Your free antivirus is checking mugshots against a face that keeps changing. Ten minutes today puts a real watcher on duty.

The defense secretary’s driver’s license was for sale on the dark web. A listener asks: Why bother protecting yours?

Cameron in Houston figures identity protection is a lost cause when even Pete Hegseth’s driver’s license hit the dark web. Kim’s answer: Leaked data is only step one. Here’s where you still win.

Delete these apps right now: The 2026 list of malicious Android and iPhone apps

Google and Apple pulled a list of more than 75 apps for stealing money, bank logins and more. Removal doesn’t reach your phone. Here’s the list and the 5-minute check.

Check this list of apps caught stealing, spying and billing you. They’re gone from the stores. They’re not gone from your phone.

Twenty-eight of them sold the same scam under one name. Five of them quietly installed a bank account thief. Fifty of them planted a rootkit that survives a factory reset. Google and Apple pulled every one of these apps this year, but removal doesn’t reach the copy on your phone. Here’s the list, the one rule that catches most of them and the five-minute check.

Free streaming got good. Your $69-a-month bill didn’t get the memo.

The average household pays $69 a month for streaming, and 73% are fed up with the price hikes. Nielsen says free services like The Roku Channel beat some paid giants, and Tubi alone has 300,000 free titles. Cancel your least-watched app for 30 days and try one of these instead.

That mystery package isn’t a gift. It’s a warning about your data.

That unordered package on your porch isn’t a shipping error. It’s proof a scammer already has your name and address, and the new ones ship with a QR code the FBI says can plant malware. Keep the item, skip the code, then lock down your passwords.

Verified badge. Dragged link. Both can wipe your accounts.

A verified X ad and a routine browser habit are being used to hijack Mac users and Microsoft 365 accounts alike. Here’s exactly how both attacks work and what stops them cold.

That free Spotify tutorial stole your passwords. Here’s what to do.

Criminals are running polished fake tutorial videos on social media promising free Spotify Premium, Microsoft Office and Windows activation. Following the steps installs a password-stealing malware called Vidar that quietly takes every saved login, bank credential and credit card number on your device. One video got 100,000 views. Here’s exactly what it grabs and what to do right now.

You keep failing those ‘click all the traffic lights’ tests for a wild reason: The robots got better at them than you are

That maddening puzzle asking you to prove you’re human? AI aces it faster than you do. Here’s the twist nobody told you: You’re the one who trained it. And what quietly replaced the test should make you look twice at that little checkbox.

Your Spectrum bill isn’t the only thing they took. Hackers claim 42 million customer records.

The group that hit Ticketmaster just targeted your internet provider. Here’s what was stolen, why Charter’s statement doesn’t add up and what to do before May 27.

That unsubscribe button is a trap. Here’s what to do instead.

One click to clean your inbox. One click to hand criminals your password. Do you know which is which?

Travel safer this spring: Save up to 35% before takeoff

Your carry-on just got smarter: Protect your privacy, power your phone and keep tabs on your luggage with these handy tools.

What phone does the president use? The answer will make you appreciate yours

Happy Presidents’ Day. The president’s phone has no apps, his car has a fridge full of blood, and someone once sent the nuclear launch codes to the dry cleaners.

The malware your antivirus can’t see and the AI making 560,000 new viruses every day

Kim Komando reveals why AI-generated malware is beating free antivirus software, the dark web marketplace selling viruses for $100/month and the symptoms that mean your computer is already infected.

Is your phone spying on you? 7 warning signs Kim Komando says to check now

Think spyware is only for billionaires? Think again. Kim Komando breaks down the 7 red flags of a phone infection, from battery drain to weird texts. Plus, get the latest on AI scammers deepfaking priests, Samsung’s new guilt-trip features and why couples are letting ChatGPT name their babies.