Tech support scammers are a very unique type of online criminals who traditionally were never as sophisticated as malware authors. For the most…
Month: December 2015
A Week in Security (Dec 20 – Dec 26)
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” ~ Albert Einstein’s New Year’s resolution Last week, we touched on several…
Mintcast PUPs Disable Safe Browsing Settings in Firefox
Author’s Note: We at Malwarebytes continue to do our part in educating our product users and constant blog readers about day-to-day…
“Turn off your Two Factor Authentication…”
Going on holiday can cause headaches for people making use of two factor authentication – perhaps some of you reading this…
HSBC Phish: “Your account is currently locked!”
Customers of HSBC should avoid the following URL, which is (most likely) part of an email based phishing campaign. While we don’t…
A Week in Security (Dec 13 – Dec 19)
Last week, we touched on a bogus service called “Steam VAC Remover”, more spam leading to fake pharmaceutical sites, DNS hijacking…
Angler EK Drops TeslaCrypt Via Recent Flash Exploit
On December 18, security company Fortinet blogged about a possible new variant of the CryptoWall ransomware distributed via spam. Around the same…
PUPs Masquerade as Installer for Antivirus and Anti-Adware
Author’s Note: We at Malwarebytes continue to do our part in educating our product users and constant blog readers about day-to-day…
Snapdragon Tightens Mobile Security
Being able to access sensitive data anytime and anywhere is convenient but potentially dangerous. Most of us walk around with sensitive…
Massive MacKeeper data breach
Kromtech, the developer of MacKeeper, has suffered a major breach that has exposed more than 13 million users’ data. Chris Vickery, a security…