Everyone knows about phishing. We’ve all heard that the solution to phishing is to educate the user as, after all, it…
Month: October 2017
Mobile Menace Monday: despicable adware
Are you wondering how that mysterious icon ended up on your Android phone’s start screen? Annoyed at the ads clogging your…
A week in security (October 9 – October 15)
Last week on the Labs blog, we talked about GDPR as part of our series in the National Cyber Security Awareness…
Malvertising on Equifax, TransUnion tied to third party script (updated)
Update (10-16-2017): More information regarding the third-party script (fireclick.js) and the domain it contacted (netflame[.]cc) was revealed by the Wall Street…
Labs report: summer ushers in unprecedented season of breaches
In this edition of the Malwarebytes Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques report for the third quarter of 2017, we saw a number…
A new kind of Apple phishing scam
In a recent blog post, Felix Krause revealed a method for phishing Apple ID passwords on iOS that would be quite…
Make way for the GDPR: Is your business ready?
In Week 2 of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), the spotlight is on businesses—particularly, their more profound need to take…
A week in security (October 02 – October 08)
Last week, we gave you some tips for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, walked through an exploration of a small adware file,…
Out of character: Homograph attacks explained
In April, Xudong Zheng, a security enthusiast based in New York, found a flaw in some modern browsers in the way they…
Using ILSpy to analyze a small adware file
As you can probably tell from some of the detection names at Virustotal, this is a MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language) file….