The healthcare industry is no longer circling the drain, but it’s still in critical condition. While many organizations in healthcare have…
Month: April 2019
Wall Street Market reported to have exit scammed
Around April 20, many users reported that Wall Street Market, a broadly known dark net market, had executed an exit scam,…
Electrum DDoS botnet reaches 152,000 infected hosts
By Jérôme Segura, Adam Thomas, and S!Ri We have been closely monitoring the situation involving the continued attacks against users of…
A week in security (April 22 – 28)
Last week on Labs, we looked at security threats to headphones, privacy options in the world of law, and wandered through…
GitHub hosted Magecart skimmer used against hundreds of e-commerce sites
Every day, new e-commerce websites fall into the hands of one of the many Magecart skimmers. Unbeknownst to shoppers, criminals are…
Labs Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques report finds businesses hit with 235 percent more threats in Q1
The Malwarebytes Labs Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques Q1 2019 report found businesses at the butt end of a bad joke. In…
A look inside the FBI’s 2018 IC3 online crime report
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center have released their annual Crime Report, with the most recent release focusing on 2018. While…
Consumers have few legal options for protecting privacy
There are no promises in the words, “We care about user privacy.” Yet, these words appear on privacy policy after privacy…
Of hoodies and headphones: a spotlight on risks surrounding audio output devices
More than a decade ago, cardiologists from the Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston presented their findings at the American Heart…
A week in security (April 15 – 21)
Last week, Malwarebytes Labs revealed multiple giveaway online scam campaigns banking on the popularity (and generosity) of Ellen DeGeneres, weighed in…