Scammers and malware authors are taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis in full swing. We have seen a number of spam…
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A week in security (June 3 – 9)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we rounded up some leaks and breaches, reported about Magecart skimmers found on Amazon CloudFront CDN,…
4 lessons to be learned from the DOE’s DDoS attack
Analysts, researchers, industry professionals, and pundits alike have all posited the dangers of the next-generation “smart grid,” particularly when it comes…
Electrum DDoS botnet reaches 152,000 infected hosts
By Jérôme Segura, Adam Thomas, and S!Ri We have been closely monitoring the situation involving the continued attacks against users of…
Electrum Bitcoin wallets under siege
By Adam Thomas and Jérôme Segura, with additional contributions from Vasilios Hioueras and S!Ri Since at least late December 2018, many…
Emotet revisited: pervasive threat still a danger to businesses
Correction, 5/22/19: Previously, we incorrectly stated that Emotet was using an EternalBlue vulnerability in order to spread laterally within a network….
New Golang brute forcer discovered amid rise in e-commerce attacks
E-commerce websites continue to be targeted by online criminals looking to steal personal and payment information directly from unaware shoppers. Recently,…
Flaw in Twitter form may have been abused by nation states
Twitter announced in a blog post on Monday that they discovered and addressed a security flaw on one of their support forms. The…
The 25th anniversary of the webcam: What did it bring us?
How did the webcam progress from a simple convenience to a worldwide security concern in 25 years? November 2018 can be…
A week in security (August 6 – August 12)
Last week, we published a review of exploit kits, talked about everyday tech that can give you a headache, and showed…