The cybersecurity industry has a problem: We have zero unemployment rate. Or so we’re told. With experts predicting millions of job openings…
Month: December 2019
5 tips for building an effective security operations center (SOC)
Security is more than just tools and processes. It is also the people that develop and operate security systems. Creating systems…
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…