Threat actors involved in tech support scams have been running a browser locker campaign from November 2020 until February 2021 on…
Month: February 2021
Researcher’s audacious hack demonstrates new type of supply-chain attack
Often the most brilliant ideas are the most simple. The hard part is being the first one to come up with…
What Google learned from 1 billion evil email scams
Google and researchers at Stanford University have released an in-depth study analysing 5 months of phishing / malware mails sent globally….
Big Patch Tuesday: Microsoft and Adobe fix in-the-wild exploits
Traditionally the second Tuesday of the month is Microsoft’s “patch Tuesday”. This is the day when they roll out all the…
Hackers try to poison Florida City’s drinking water
The FBI, the Secret Service, and the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office are currently investigating an attempted poisoning of a city by…
Cyberpunk 2077 developer hit by ransomware
CD PROJEKT RED, the game developer behind Cyberpunk 2077, announced earlier on Twitter that it has fallen victim to a targeted…
Android devices caught in Matryosh botnet
Researchers at Netlab have discovered a new botnet that re-uses the Mirai framework to pull vulnerable Android devices into DDoS attacks….
How NOT to fail at PDF redaction
The heated spat between Europe and AstraZeneca over a contract has segued into an unexpected blunder that left many of us…
A week in security (February 1 – February 7)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we dug into a load of security events. We first peered into how Fonix ransomware was…
Update now! Chrome patches zero-day that was exploited in the wild
A Chrome patch has been issued with an advisory stating that the Stable channel has been updated to 88.0.4324.150 for Windows,…