We’ve seen a fair few spam emails in circulation this week, ranging from phishing to money muling to sexploitation. Shall we…
Month: July 2018
A week in security (July 23 – July 29)
Last week on Labs, we looked at an adware called MobiDash getting stealthy, a new strain of Mac malware called Proton that was found…
New Android P includes several security improvements
According to the Android developer Program Overview, the next major version of Android, Android 9.0 or P, is set to arrive soon….
Introducing: Malwarebytes Browser Extension
[Update 9/20/2019] The browser extensions are out of beta. You can read about the final product Malwarebytes Browser Guard in this…
‘Hidden Bee’ miner delivered via improved drive-by download toolkit
This blog post was authored by @hasherezade and Jérôme Segura. We recently detected a drive-by download attack trying to exploit CVE-2018-4878, a vulnerability in…
Trojans: What’s the real deal?
The fictional Greeks hiding in their legendary Trojan horse would probably be excited to learn that the default Wiki page for…
New strain of Mac malware Proton found after two years
Last week, Kaspersky reported on a new variant of the Mac malware Proton, which they have dubbed Calisto, that has been…
Mobile Menace Monday: Adware MobiDash gets stealthy
The Adware known as MobiDash, detected by Malwarebytes for Android as Android/Adware.MobiDash, is far from a new. However, this ad-displaying nuisance…
A week in security (July 16 – July 22)
Last week on Labs, we looked at a Magniber expansion, explored open source vulnerabilities, and checked out the boons and drawbacks…
The danger of third parties: ads, pipelines, and plugins
It may or may not be comforting to know that, ultimately, bulletproof security is out of your hands. You can have…