After being defeated about a month ago, Petya comes back with new tricks. Now, not as a single ransomware, but in…
Month: May 2016
“Automated Tax Refund Notification” spam…
We’re seeing multiple copies of the below spam dropping into mailboxes at the moment, all of which claim to be an…
Tech support scammers get serious with screen lockers
Tech support scammers are well aware of what is going on in the malware scene and often rip off ideas and concepts…
Nexus Mods site goes public with “bad ad” report
We cover a lot of Malvertising disasters on this blog, and I’ve previously looked at how many websites will go to war…
A week in security (May 08 – May 14)
Last week, we saw spam posts suddenly appearing on a celebrity’s website, talked about a malvertising campaign on Blogger, dissected a…
Tech Support Impostors Part II: Where are They Now?
Last October, we uncovered a tech support scam trading on Malwarebytes’ good name. So half a year later, what happened to the…
Website For French Cinema Chain Gets Hacked, Serves CryptXXX Ransomware (UPDATED)
Update (05/14): The Pathé website is back online. However, the infection is still there and it is again redirecting visitors to…
Top Chilean News Website Emol Pushes Angler Exploit Kit
Emol.com (El Mercurio On-Line) is a very popular information portal ranked 5th most visited site in Chile. El Mercurio, is a conservative Chilean…
The official Dido website: “Cheap flower delivery”
We’ve noticed some oddities on singer Dido‘s website and thought we’d take a closer look. The news page has been silent since…
Tech support scams: help and resource page
Hello, we are calling from Windows and your computer looks like it is infected. Our Microsoft Certified Technician can fix it…