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Month: January 2016
App Update Tool Could Endanger iOS Users
On Wednesday, FireEye posted a very detailed article about a concerning trend among iOS developers. Some developers are integrating an update library…
Rotten Tomatoes, Jerusalem Post And Other Publishers Victim Of Ongoing Malvertising Campaign
Rogue advertisers are increasingly able to defeat various ad networks which is not good news for publishers and their visitors. It means…
Elaborate iCloud Phish Used To Activate Stolen iPhones
Update: Shortly after publishing this blog, we noticed that Safari was now showing the site as a phish: Much information from our…
Rogue Google Chrome Extension Spies On You
The popular Google Chrome browser has some of the best security tools baked in with features such as Safebrowsing which protects…
More Fake Facebook “Security System Page” Scams
All of the below pages – which offer up Facebook phishing in the guise of “Security pages” – have all recently…
Introducing the Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware Beta
For the last four years, ransomware has evolved into one of the biggest threats to cyber security that I’ve seen in…
A Week in Security (Jan 17 – Jan 23)
Roundup time! Last week was definitely a busy one, with Malvertising on MSN.com, and a faintly dramatic tech-support scam riding roughshod…
Trojan.DNSChanger circumvents Powershell restrictions
In recent variants of the infamous DNS-changer adware we have found that the coders use a particularly interesting method to bypass…
LeChiffre, Ransomware Ran Manually
LeChiffre is yet another ransomware that recently has been observed to cause some major damage (in Mumbai – read more here)….