UPDATE, 05/22/2020: In the advent of the EARN IT Act, the debate on government subversion of encryption has reignited. Given that…
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New version of IcedID Trojan uses steganographic payloads
This blog post was authored by @hasherezade, with contributions from @siri_urz and Jérôme Segura. Security firm Proofpoint recently published a report…
A week in security (July 15 – 21)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took an extensive look at Sodinokibi, one of the new ransomware strains found in the…
Mac malware combines EmPyre backdoor and XMRig miner
Earlier this week, we discovered a new piece of Mac malware that is combining two different open-source tools—the EmPyre backdoor and…
Mac cryptocurrency ticker app installs backdoors
An astute contributor to our forums going by the handle 1vladimir noticed that an app named CoinTicker was exhibiting some fishy…
An in-depth malware analysis of QuantLoader
This guest post is written by Vishal Thakur, CSIRT/Salesforce. For more on Vishal, read his bio at the end of the…
HandBrake hacked to drop new variant of Proton malware
Last year, the Transmission torrent app was hacked not just once, but twice, to install the KeRanger ransomware and, later, the…
Mobile Menace Monday: Adups, old and new
A newly discovered malicious app is found on China-made mobile devices running the Android OS. This is a baked-in system app…