Taxpayers in the UK should be wary of emails claiming they’re owed a tax refund to the tune of 100.60 GBP….
Month: August 2014
Fraudulent Netflix site wants to leave you high and dry
We’ve seen countless fake pages purporting to be a bank or a popular shopping site that ask you for personal information. This type…
Shining some light on the ‘Unknown’ Exploit Kit
Every now and again we come across new URL patterns when investigating traffic captures. In some cases, they are variations of existing…
Fake Government Warning Leads to Bogus Infection Pictures
Trypophobia. If you haven’t already run away screaming, this is the name given to a recent phenomenon involving: …pathological fear, revulsion…
Goodbye CD Wallet. Hello ISOSTICK!
The ISOSTICK is a USB stick that masquerades as an external CD/DVD drive and loads ISOs from a removable MicroSD card. Many of…
Phishers Hook Facebook Users via SMS
Update, 01 Sept 2014: NUMBERCOP, one of our blog readers, has tipped us off in the comments section about this particular…
Leave these Vacation Scams at the Border
With the summer slowly winding down, you’ll likely see a barrage of flights become cheaper in one last attempt to jet…
Sub-domain on SourceForge redirects to Flash Pack Exploit Kit
We have talked about SourceForge before on this blog, in particular when they were associated with bundled software. This time around,…
Convincing YouTube look-alike fires RIG Exploit Kit
The lure of salacious videos is often used to trick people into downloading and running malware. As you will see in…
A Week in Security (Aug 17 – 23)
Here’s a review of last week’s posts on Malwarebytes Unpacked: Top news stories: Stay safe! The Malwarebytes Labs Team