The UK’s Crown Prosecution Services (CPS) has recently updated its social media guidelines for prosecutors and law enforcement in an effort…
Month: October 2016
Threat modeling: What are you so afraid of?
When asked “what should we defend against,” a common response by a decision maker is “everything,” operating under the implicit logic…
Youndoo creates new Chrome profile
We have found members of the Elex family to create an extra Firefox profile and wrote about it on our blog…
Multiple scam centers raided in India for IRS fraud
Over 600 fake call center employees in the municipality of Mira Road in Maharashtra, India were detained early last week for suspicion…
A week in security (Oct 02 – Oct 08)
Last week, we welcomed National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM). At the same time, our CEO made an announcement: Malwarebytes will get tough…
PUP Friday: Let’s talk generic
The detection name of PUP.Optional.Downloader is probably as non-specific as you can get when it comes to identifying what particular unwanted…
Press H to Hack: Earth Defense Force needs defending
Video games! They’re great, except when they’re not. And in this case, a very good game is giving players some very…
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Cybersecurity awareness has never been more important than it is right now. Governments, businesses, and individuals are increasingly under attack by cybercriminals…
Malware “Eko” affecting French Facebook users
Since the start of this week, the French media and online forums have been abuzz about a new Facebook Messenger “Trojan…
Malwarebytes gets tougher on PUPs
Several years ago, I blogged that we would be increasing how aggressive we would be in detecting Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) and…