Malwarebytes
How to keep your browser and devices safe from cryptojackers
Cryptojacking makes surfing the web similar to walking through a minefield: you never know when you might land on a booby-trapped site. Stealthy cryptocurrency mining scripts …
Phishers target panicking PayPal users with fake “failed transaction” emails
With the end-of-the-year holidays quickly approaching and many users worrying whether the gifts they bought online will be delivered in time for the festivities, an email from …
Stealthy in-browser cryptomining continues even after you close window
In-browser cryptocurrency mining is, in theory, a neat idea: make users’ computers “mine” Monero for website owners so they don’t have to bombard users …
The Wild West of drive-by cryptocurrency mining
As more and more Coinhive clones continue popping up, chances of users’ CPU power being hijacked for cryptocurrency mining are rising. According to Malwarebytes’ …
Have you heard about Bitcoin multipliers?
Professedly, they are services that multiply any Bitcoin amount you send them by several times, and return to you the total amount in a mere hours. How do they do that? …
Compromised analytics provider made Equifax’s site point to malware
Yesterday’s revelation that Equifax’s credit report assistance Web page was spotted redirecting visitors to malware resulted in the company temporarily disabling …
Equifax’s site hacked to redirect info-seeking visitors to adware
Here’s the last incredible-but-not-really Equifax security blunder: it appears that their Web site has been hacked, and made to redirect to site serving adware …
Spoofed IRS notice delivers RAT through link updating trick
The malware delivery trick involving updating links in Word documents is apparently gaining some traction: the latest campaign to use it likely takes the form of fake emails …
Phishers targeting LinkedIn users via hijacked accounts
A new phishing campaign has been spotted hitting LinkedIn users via direct messages and the LinkedIn InMail feature. They are sent from legitimate LinkedIn Premium accounts …
New infosec products of the week: August 25, 2017
Malwarebytes for Android features proprietary anti-ransomware technology Malwarebytes released Malwarebytes for Android, featuring targeted defense against mobile malware, …
Attackers turn to auto-updating links instead of macros to deliver malware
SANS ISC handler Xavier Mertens has flagged and analyzed a malicious Word file that, somehow, is made to automatically download an additional malicious RTF file, ultimately …
22% of SMBs hit by ransomware had to cease business operations
More than one-third of small and medium-sized businesses have experienced a ransomware attack in the last year, a new Malwarebytes report claims, and 22 percent of these …