The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has warned that attackers are increasingly leveraging Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions as covert backdoors into servers….
Month: July 2022
In post-Roe US, experts share how to keep your data private
In the weeks since the Supreme Court of the United States removed a nationwide right to choose to have an abortion,…
Simplifying the fight against ransomware: An expert explains
Fighting against ransomware can be difficult—especially if your organization has limited IT resources to begin with. But Adam Kujawa, security evangelist…
T-Mobile agrees to pay customers $350 million in settlement over data breach
T-Mobile has agreed to pay $350 million to settle class action claims related to a 2021 cyberattack which impacted around 80…
SonicWall urges customers to patch critical SQL injection bug ASAP
Cybersecurity hardware company, SonicWall, recently released a public security notice about a critical SQL injection flaw affecting its GMS (Global Management…
Microsoft clamps down on RDP brute-force attacks in Windows 11
It wasn’t so long ago that we were wondering what improvements Windows 11 would make in the security stakes. Well, we…
Demo: Your data has been encrypted! Stopping ransomware attacks with Malwarebytes EDR
It’s no secret that ransomware is one of the most pressing cyber threats of our day. What worse, ransomware gangs have…
Malware spent months hoovering up credit card details from 300 US restaurants
Criminal hackers have been able to steal at least 50,000 credit cards from 300 restaurants in the US, after launching two…
A week in security (July 18 – July 24)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Stay safe!
Lightning Framework, modular Linux malware
Researchers at Intezer have published a technical analysis of Lightning Framework, a previously undocumented and undetected Linux threat. Lightning is a…