Malwarebytes Wins Cyber Security Vendor Achievement of the Year – Global Excellence Awards 2018

Malwarebytes™announced today that Info Security Products Guide, the industry’s leading information security research and advisory guide, has named Malwarebytes a gold winner in the Cyber Security Vendor Achievement of the Year (500 – 2,499 employees) category and CEO, Marcin Kleczynski, a silver winner in the CEO of the Year (500 – 2,499 employees) category of the 14th Annual 2018 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards®.

Cryptocurrency mining site hijacked millions of Android phones

Smartphone users are just as vulnerable to cryptocurrency mining hijacks as their PC counterparts, and sometimes on a dramatic scale. Malwarebytes has detailed a “drive-by” mining campaign that redirected millions of Android users to a website that hijacked their phone processors for mining Monero. While the exact trigger wasn’t clear, researchers believed that infected apps with malicious ads would steer people toward the pages. And it wasn’t subtle — the site would claim that you were showing “suspicious” web activity and tell you that it was mining until you entered a captcha code to make it stop.

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