Content Protector or Content Defender as it was called before, is an adware not to be confused with the legitimate WordPress…
Month: October 2016
Malwarebytes teams up with Breast Cancer Fund for awareness campaign
Malwarebytes is proud to support the Breast Cancer Fund this October because of their work to shift the conversation from awareness…
The global impact of ransomware
We’ve had a lot to say about ransomware over the last few months. We’ve looked at the relationship between ransomware and…
Malwarebytes acquires AdwCleaner
As many of you have already seen, last week I blogged that we would be getting more aggressive in the detection…
Facebook will make all posts public. Not!
Late last week, Facebook users may have been seeing some of their contacts posting something like this: …Better to be safe…
Yet another Sundown EK variant? (updated)
Update (11/6/2016): TrendLabs recently published (11/04/2016) their own research on this new Sundown EK, which turns out to be a new exploit kit…
Report: the anatomy of tech support scams
Each year, several million people fall for tech support scams and, according to Microsoft, in 2015 alone crooks walked away with an…
New-looking Sundown EK drops Smoke Loader, Kronos banker
As we keep a tab on exploit kits, today we are looking at some changes with Sundown EK. Nowhere near as…
Mobile Menace Monday: beware of monitoring apps
Our CEO, Marcin Kleczynski, recently announced that Malwarebytes will get tougher on PUPs. PUPs, or potentially unwanted programs, are some of…
A week in security (Oct 09 – Oct 15)
Last week, we talked about threat modeling and profiled an unwanted installer that Malwarebytes detects as PUP.Optional.YesSearches. We also covered reports…