July 2015

News | Threats

Defeating The Fake iOS Crash Reports

Posted: July 31, 2015 by Jérôme Segura

There have been a lot of reports lately about fake iOS crash reports that completely hijack your iPhone or iPad. Indeed, online…

Exploits and vulnerabilities | News | Threats

Posted: July 28, 2015 by Jérôme Segura

Some of the great places to exchange and participate in online communities are made possible by web forums. However, they may not always…

News

Posted: by Adam Kujawa

It’s that time again, a new operating system emerges from the Microsoft incubator! While many of you might not get to…

Cybercrime | News

Posted: by Thomas Reed

Last week, we discovered a new version of the InstallCore installer that displays an unpleasant new trick: it pretends to be…

News | Threats

Posted: July 27, 2015 by Jérôme Segura

Popular news site rbc[dot]ua is currently hacked and infecting its visitors via the RIG exploit kit. The majority of the traffic to…

News | Threats

Posted: by Jérôme Segura

It’s always interesting to identify the source of an infection, especially when it comes to exploit kits. Beyond identifying the various…

News

Posted: by Malwarebytes Labs

We begin our look back at last week with a message: time to patch. With the critical patch alert out of…

Cybercrime | News

Posted: July 24, 2015 by Christopher Boyd

Today, we’re going to look at a file served up from a fake Twitch blog (now offline) which was located at…

Cybercrime | News | Privacy

Posted: by Jovi Umawing

We continue to see news of non-consensual pornography, or what is commonly referred to as “revenge porn“, hit our feeds and…

Cybercrime | News

Posted: July 23, 2015 by Thomas Reed

Security researcher Stefan Esser published the details of a vulnerability in OS X a couple weeks ago that allows an attacker to…