Just when I thought I would be finished writing about PUPs for a bit, I came across a pop-up advising me…
Month: December 2013
Amazon Invoice Malware Spam run Continues
I had a few mails land in a spamtrap of mine over the last few days, part of an ongoing spam…
Temporary Tech? Permanent Fail
Not so long ago, I went up a mountain. A mountain which, you may be interested to know, sits roughly 5,000…
Miner Madness!
Over the past few weeks, I am certain that you have heard your fair share about Bitcoin and not just from…
Fake VPN Site Serves Up Keylogger
VPN services have probably never been in more demand with the continued fallout of the Snowden / NSA revelations. They’re certainly…
File extensions
What are file extensions? A file extension (or simply “extension”) is the suffix at the end of a filename that indicates…
Android Pop-ups Warn of Infection
We’ve recently encountered quite a few pop-ups saying our Android device is infected. These sites aren’t ones we’d expect to see…
SMS Activated Flash Downloads: A Digital Leap of Faith
We recently poked some fake Flash files with a stick which attempted to turn a PC into an exercise in coin…
Malvertising and the joys of online advertising
You can hardly browse any website without encountering some type of advertisement along the way, typically in the shape of a…
Installers: Customizing Your “Needs”
Just recently, a fellow researcher here at Malwarebytes received an email asking us to stop blocking their website. The link navigates…