Last week, we touched on a Twitter spam that lures one to hack accounts, got personal with tech support scammers, witnessed…
Month: April 2016
SafeSoft Protector Abuses Privoxy
Author’s Note: We at Malwarebytes continue to do our part in educating our product users and constant blog readers about day-to-day…
Botched Flash 0day Gets Patched
Adobe has just released a patch for the infamous Flash Player to fix a vulnerability actively exploited in the wild by some…
Spam serves up health service legal disclaimers…and job offer
Here’s a peculiar set of emails with an origin point tracing back at least 9 years. These missives claim to be from well…
AdLoad: an advertisement bombarder
While looking into an infection associated with a “system optimizer”—Didn’t we say they’re digital snake oil?—we identified a multi-functional installer called…
A Look At A Neutrino EK Distributor
We’ve spotted a distribution channel for the Neutrino exploit kit which starts with malicious iframe injections. Digging a little more, we found…
Steer clear of this latest fake iPhone discount news
More than a week after the FBI has decided to drop that case against Apple, it appears that the controversy surrounding…
“I’d like to add you to my scammer network”
We’ve encountered many a tech support scam over the years, and the story is usually the same: a fake Blue Screen…
Avoid: “I just hacked my friend’s account” Twitter spam
We’re seeing references to a website which claims to let visitors hack Twitter feeds of their choosing. It is, of course,…
A Week in Security (Mar 27 – Apr 02)
Last week, we looked back on misleading advertising, gave an overview of what fileless infection is, alerted Steam users of a…