It’s been a particularly ghoulish year in cybersecurity, from Russian hacks to ransomware outbreaks. The bad boogey man in the black…
Tag: malspam
Old MS Office feature weaponized in malspam attacks
Update (11-08-2017): Microsoft has issued a security advisory about DDE-based attacks and is also providing tips on how to disable that…
Labs report: summer ushers in unprecedented season of breaches
In this edition of the Malwarebytes Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques report for the third quarter of 2017, we saw a number…
Fake IRS notice delivers customized spying tool
While macro-based documents and scripts make up for the majority of malspam attacks these days, we also see some campaigns that…
Locky ransomware returns to the game with two new flavors
We recently observed a fresh malicious spam campaign pushed through the Necurs botnet distributing so far, two new variants of Locky…
Report: Cybercrime climate shifts dramatically in first quarter
The first quarter of 2017 brought with it some significant changes to the threat landscape and we aren’t talking about heavy…
USPS-themed malspam now delivering 1-2-3 knock-out
We’ve detected an uptick in USPS-themed malspam walloping users with a 1-2-3 knock-out of nasty malware designed to infiltrate your system…