Security is more than just tools and processes. It is also the people that develop and operate security systems. Creating systems…
Month: December 2019
New Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) veterans program aims to bridge skills gap, diversify sector
The cybersecurity industry has a problem: We have zero unemployment rate. Or so we’re told. With experts predicting millions of job openings…
Threat spotlight: the curious case of Ryuk ransomware
Ryuk. A name once unique to a fictional character in a popular Japanese comic book and cartoon series is now a…
The little-known ways mobile device sensors can be exploited by cybercriminals
The bevy of mobile device sensors in modern smartphones and tablets make them more akin to pocket-sized laboratories and media studios…
Hundreds of counterfeit online shoe stores injected with credit card skimmer
There’s a well-worn saying in security: “If it’s too good to be true, then it probably isn’t.” This can easily be…
Please don’t buy this: smart doorbells
Though Black Friday and Cyber Monday are over, the two shopping holidays were just precursors to the larger Christmas season—a time…
A week in security (December 2 – December 8)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a look at a new version of the IcedID Trojan, described web skimmers up…
Fake Elder Scrolls Online developers go phishing on PlayStation
A player of popular gaming title Elder Scrolls Online recently took to Reddit to warn users of a phish via Playstation…
Report: Organizations remain vulnerable to increasing insider threats
The latest data breach at Capital One is a noteworthy incident not because it affected over 100 million customer records, 140,000…
There’s an app for that: web skimmers found on PaaS Heroku
Criminals love to abuse legitimate services—especially platform-as-a-service (Paas) cloud providers—as they are a popular and reliable hosting commodity used to support…