Tomorrowland, a major international music festival, has revealed a data breach potentially affecting around 60,000 attendees. This one is a little…
Month: October 2018
How to tighten security and increase privacy on your browser
Is my browser making an effort to keep my system safe and my online behavior private? This is usually not the…
Removing the jam in your printer security
Printers are an important, invisible—albeit sometimes loud—component of the office. But all too often they’re filled with mystery meat icons, peculiar…
Mobile Menace Monday: top five scariest mobile threats
In the spirit of this upcoming Halloween season, we thought we’d provide you with a list of the top five scariest…
Mac cryptocurrency ticker app installs backdoors
An astute contributor to our forums going by the handle 1vladimir noticed that an app named CoinTicker was exhibiting some fishy…
A week in security (October 22 – 28)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a look at some new Mac malware, gave you a roundup of 2018 exploit…
Scammers use old browser trick to create fake virus download
Tech support scammers are reusing an old technique in their existing browser locker (browlock) schemes to force a special kind of…
Sextortion emails: They’re probably not watching you
Back in July, Krebs on Security reported on a rather novel scam, where the threat actor would use credentials from old…
Huge breach affects 9 million Cathay Pacific customers
Airlines aren’t having a good time of things at the moment. Even if you managed to dodge the recent British Airways…
Mac malware intercepts encrypted web traffic for ad injection
Last week, Malwarebytes researcher Adam Thomas found an interesting new piece of Mac malware that exhibits some troubling behaviors, including intercepting…