ALL POSTS A week in security (March 25 – 31) Malwarebytes Labs April 1, 2019 0 Comments Last week, we looked at plugin vulnerabilities, location tracking app problems, and talked about plain text password woes. We also looked… Awakening the beast: BatMobi adware Nathan Collier March 29, 2019 0 Comments On February 12, a patron of the Malwarebytes Forum alerted us of an issue with ad redirects that seemed to come… US Congress proposes comprehensive federal data privacy legislation—finally David Ruiz March 28, 2019 0 Comments The United States might be the only country of its size—both in economy and population—to lack a comprehensive data privacy law… Location data leaks from family tracking app database Christopher Boyd March 27, 2019 0 Comments An app called Family Locator, which allows family members to keep track of one another recently experienced an exposed database issue of… Facebook’s plain text misstep, and other password sins William Tsing March 27, 2019 0 Comments Two days after an article by Brian Krebs disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook account passwords had been stored in… Plugin vulnerabilities exploited in traffic monetization schemes Jérôme Segura March 26, 2019 0 Comments In their Website Hack Trend Report, web security company Sucuri noted that WordPress infections rose to 90 percent in 2018. One aspect… A week in security (March 18 – 24) Malwarebytes Labs March 25, 2019 0 Comments Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we touched on the susceptibility of hospitals against phishing attacks, password reuse, the risk of interactive… Researchers go hunting for Netflix’s Bandersnatch Christopher Boyd March 22, 2019 0 Comments A new research paper from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras explains how popular Netflix interactive show Bandersnatch could fall victim to… Are hackers gonna hack anymore? Not if we keep reusing passwords Kacy Zurkus March 21, 2019 0 Comments Enterprises have a password problem, and it’s one that is making the work of hackers a lot easier. From credential stuffing… Previous 1 … 366 367 368 369 370 … 614 Next Contributors Threat Center Podcast Glossary Scams
