On February 12, a patron of the Malwarebytes Forum alerted us of an issue with ad redirects that seemed to come…
Month: March 2019
US Congress proposes comprehensive federal data privacy legislation—finally
The United States might be the only country of its size—both in economy and population—to lack a comprehensive data privacy law…
Location data leaks from family tracking app database
An app called Family Locator, which allows family members to keep track of one another recently experienced an exposed database issue of…
Facebook’s plain text misstep, and other password sins
Two days after an article by Brian Krebs disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook account passwords had been stored in…
Plugin vulnerabilities exploited in traffic monetization schemes
In their Website Hack Trend Report, web security company Sucuri noted that WordPress infections rose to 90 percent in 2018. One aspect…
A week in security (March 18 – 24)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we touched on the susceptibility of hospitals against phishing attacks, password reuse, the risk of interactive…
Researchers go hunting for Netflix’s Bandersnatch
A new research paper from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras explains how popular Netflix interactive show Bandersnatch could fall victim to…
Are hackers gonna hack anymore? Not if we keep reusing passwords
Enterprises have a password problem, and it’s one that is making the work of hackers a lot easier. From credential stuffing…
Facebook’s history betrays its privacy pivot
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg proposed a radical pivot for his company this month: it would start caring—really—about privacy, building out a…
New research finds hospitals are easy targets for phishing attacks
New research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston finds hospital employees are extremely vulnerable to phishing attacks. The study highlights just…