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It was indeed a false-positive: https://twitter.com/thomasareed/status/1039939712704819200. As for vouching for MB, I know some of the people behind the project, and they're spectacular. For years I have assisted with deobfuscating malicious JavaScript and more. They seem, to me, to have the purest of intentions.

(Not an official Brave endorsement, but I personally like their team)

Not to mention more aggressive upselling in the free version via popups. Closing the application sends it to the system tray where it will later remind you to "update" MalwareBytes by buying a license.

In June, I too had an auto-update from Beyond Compare failing due to Malwarebytes and it made me think their servers were compromised. Nope, false positive.

It looks like this happens often enough, there is a whole page dedicated to false positives.

https://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_virus