On March 20th, reports were circulating that a cyberattack had been conducted against broadcast networks and banks in South Korea. In…
Month: March 2013
Hoaxes
A hoax ( to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous ) is the word we…
Internet everywhere and poor security practices: a disaster in the making?
We often hear about botnets (networks of infected computers) being used to send out spam, perform Distributed Denial of Service attacks…
From Russia with Ransomware
This week the research team stumbled across a Russian ransomware sample so I decided to take a peek. The ransom message…
Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit – Raising the Bar!
For all our interested readers, both Marcin, our CEO and I (Marcus) were recently interviewed for an article to discuss our…
High Exposure
Bill Gates is the latest victim of a series of hacks targeting celebrities and getting their private information exposed to the…
New Exploit Kit, Ransomware and AV evasion
Ransomware is still going strong and infecting countless PCs. We happened to stumble upon an interesting sample part of the Urausy…
Bsides SF: The Aftermath
A few weeks back, we told everyone we were going to BSides to do things like meet awesome people and give…
Obfuscation: Malware’s best friend
Here at Malwarebytes, we see a lot of malware. Whether it’s a botnet used to attack web servers or a ransomware…
Dangerous beans: Oracle deep in the storm
Last week security researchers from FireEye discovered a new Java exploit that works against the latest versions of Java (version 6…