After a fairly long hiatus that lasted nearly four months, Emotet is back with an active spam distribution campaign. For a…
Month: September 2019
A week in security (September 9 – 15)
Last week on the Labs blog, we looked at free VPN offerings, how malware can hinder vital emergency services, and explored…
Hacking with AWS: incorporating leaky buckets into your OSINT workflow
Penetration testing is often conducted by security researchers to help organizations identify holes in their security and fix them, before cybercriminals…
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…