ALL POSTS A Week in Security (Jan 17 – Jan 23) Malwarebytes Labs January 25, 2016 0 Comments Roundup time! Last week was definitely a busy one, with Malvertising on MSN.com, and a faintly dramatic tech-support scam riding roughshod… Trojan.DNSChanger circumvents Powershell restrictions Pieter Arntz January 22, 2016 0 Comments In recent variants of the infamous DNS-changer adware we have found that the coders use a particularly interesting method to bypass… LeChiffre, Ransomware Ran Manually hasherezade January 22, 2016 0 Comments LeChiffre is yet another ransomware that recently has been observed to cause some major damage (in Mumbai – read more here)…. Malwarebytes Raises $50 Million from Fidelity Marcin Kleczynski January 21, 2016 0 Comments I’m very excited to announce that we have closed our second round of funding with a fantastic investment partner, Fidelity.For a… Tech support scammers lure users with fake Norton warnings, turn out to be Symantec reseller Jérôme Segura January 20, 2016 0 Comments Fraudulent tech support companies are well-known for taking advantage of unsavvy computer users by reeling them in with scare tactics and… Spammers Serve Trump and Movie Survey Mashup Christopher Boyd January 20, 2016 0 Comments I wondered for a moment if I’d been signed up to some sort of political taskforce when I opened up the… Hacking your head: how cybercriminals use social engineering Wendy Zamora January 20, 2016 0 Comments Social engineering is nothing new. It’s a tool of psychological manipulation that’s been used since the dawn of man. Why? To… MSN Home Page Drops More Malware Via Malvertising Jérôme Segura January 19, 2016 0 Comments Malvertisers are once again abusing ad technology platform AdSpirit and exposing visitors of the MSN homepage to malware. These attacks appeared… Belinda Carlisle’s Official Website Hacked, Sports Viagra Banner Christopher Boyd January 18, 2016 0 Comments At some point over the weekend, the official website of Belinda Carlisle was compromised, displaying banner ads for a Canadian Pharmacy… Previous 1 … 489 490 491 492 493 … 614 Next Contributors Threat Center Podcast Glossary Scams
