Penetration testing is often conducted by security researchers to help organizations identify holes in their security and fix them, before cybercriminals…
Month: September 2019
YouTube ordered to cough up $170M settlement over COPPA infraction
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it has required Google and YouTube to pay a settlement fee totaling…
Vital infrastructure: emergency services
Organizations in the emergency services sector are there for the public to provide help when situations get out of hand or…
300 shades of gray: a look into free mobile VPN apps
The times, they are a changin’. When users once felt free to browse the Internet anonymously, post about their innermost lives…
When corporate communications look like a phish
Many organizations will spend significant sums of money on phishing training for employees. Taking the form of regular awareness training, or…
A week in security (September 2 – 8)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at a smart social engineering toolkit, delved into TrickBot tampering with trusted texts, and…
5 simple steps to securing your remote employees
As remote working has become standard practice, employees are working from anywhere and using any device they can to get the…
A week in security (August 26 – September 1)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we analysed the Android xHelper trojan, we wondered why the Nextdoor app would send out letters…
TrickBot adds new trick to its arsenal: tampering with trusted texts
Researchers from Dell Secureworks saw a new feature in TrickBot that allows it to tamper with the web sessions of users…
New social engineering toolkit draws inspiration from previous web campaigns
Some of the most common web threats we track have a social engineering component. Perhaps the more popular ones are those…