It’s Monday, which means we have a roundup! Over the past week on Malwarebytes Unpacked, we’ve moved from a vulnerability disclosure…
Month: February 2016
DayZ in a Daze: Forum Breach Confirmed
Back in 2012, the team working on the DayZ mod had their forums and main email account compromised – with a piece of…
Gossip Site TMZ, Latest Victim of Malvertising Campaign
Update : We received a note that SmartyAds looked at these incidents and has already blocked the offending actor. The same malvertising campaign…
Fake Amazon Mail Phishes for Login, Payment Information
From the mailbox: a fake Amazon mail which attempts to persuade the lucky recipient that they have the chance to win £10 in return…
Nuclear EK Leveraged In Large WordPress Compromise Campaign
Security company Sucuri recently noted a spike in WordPress infections, with a large number of sites getting injected with the same malicious scripts….
BleepingComputer Defends Freedom of Speech
Hey folks, Very recently, a very popular and useful website called Bleeping Computer reached out to the community at large asking…
A weather app with a twist
Recently, a weather app caught our attention by doing something far worse than predicting rain all the time. It installed all…
Top Exploit Kits Round Up | January Edition
This is an overview of the most popular exploit kits that we have caught in our honeypots in the past few weeks and have…
DMA Locker: New Ransomware, But No Reason To Panic
DMA Locker is another ransomware that appeared at the beginning of this year. For now it has been observed to be…
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware vulnerability disclosure
In early November, a well-known and respected security researcher by the name of Tavis Ormandy alerted us to several security vulnerabilities…