ThreatList: Apple Adware, Phishing, APT Attacks Threaten macOS Users
A gentle reminder. If you get a popup that asks you to ‘update Flash’ or ‘Install this video viewer’ or other such nonsense, ignore it…: While macOS is often touted […]
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Catches of the month: Phishing scams for September 2019
Nice examples from the IT governance blog…: We’re back for another round-up of phishing scams that caught our eye over the past month. This series provides real-life examples of phishing […]
How to get your Equifax money and stay safe doing it
Following the enormous data breach of Equifax in 2017—in which roughly 147 million Americans’ suffered the loss of their Social Security numbers, addresses, credit card and driver’s license information, birthdates, […]
A week in security (July 8 – 14)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at ways to send your sensitive information in a secure fashion, examined some tactics in incident response land, and explored federal data privacy […]
No, the Met Police wasn’t hacked. But its Twitter account and website were hijacked
I, along with quite a few people on my twitter feed, noticed that something wasn’t quite write with the Met Police twitter account. Here’s a look at what happened and […]
Human Honeypots: I Make Friends (and So Should You)
I recently ran across a tweet by the very insightful Fernando Montenegro in which he makes an interesting point about a phenomenon we occasionally run into while examining social media […]
March Madness Scams Give Attackers Fast Break
Unintended consequences of blocking access to sports sites…: […] While a variety of legitimate sites – from ESPN to NCAA – offer streaming access during the tournament games, sometimes these […]
Business payroll compromise – a new way for criminals to steal from your company
Graham Cluley gives details of one way of carrying out payroll compromise. While we’re talking about payroll (probably more than 50% of your company’s costs) I’ll just add that many […]