Microsoft has confirmed that a number of its email services have been breached, with users’ email content potentially exposed. The tech giant noted in its incident statement on 12 April that the criminal hackers could have viewed email addresses, folder names and email subject lines, but … [Read more...]
April 17, 2019
April 16, 2019
Hackers snab emails and more in Microsoft Outlook, Hotmail, and MSN compromise
Long-time users of certain Microsoft products, such as Hotmail, MSN, and Outlook found they may be wrapped up in a hack grabbing snippets of email information, and in some cases, a little bit more. Microsoft email services have been around forever in Internet time. Yet, many users still have a few Hotmail accounts rattling around. While most have long since moved on from MSN and Hotmail to Live … [Read more...]
April 16, 2019
April 15, 2019
April 12, 2019
Fake Instagram assistance apps found on Google Play are stealing passwords
We all want those Instagram likes and followers. Many apps on Google Play claim they can assist you with that effort. But what if the app that’s supposed to be helping you is also stealing your username and password? As a matter of fact, that’s exactly what we found in three fake Instagram assistance apps still available on Google Play at the time of this writing. Moreover, these fake … [Read more...]
April 3, 2019
Was this really an attempt by the Chinese?
Last weekend, during President Trump’s visit to the Mar-a-Lago resort, a 23-year-old Chinese woman attempted to gain access to the Florida resort by lying and bluffing her way in. After some discussion at the gate, she was escorted to the reception of the resort where it was found out that she was not on the list of people that were allowed to enter. According to the report a search of her … [Read more...]
March 29, 2019
Awakening the beast: BatMobi adware
On February 12, a patron of the Malwarebytes Forum alerted us of an issue with ad redirects that seemed to come out of nowhere. An outcry from other commenters filled the forum thread, all experiencing the same redirects to the same exact websites. Our web protection team traced the offending websites back to the culprit—the adware known as BatMobi. What is BatMobi? BatMobi is an Advertisement … [Read more...]
March 27, 2019
Location data leaks from family tracking app database
An app called Family Locator, which allows family members to keep track of one another recently experienced an exposed database issue of the worst kind. Specifically: the MongoDB database was left exposed with no password, like so many other recent infosec tales of woe. The end result is the location of about 280,000 users leaking in real time. For a location tracking app that also includes … [Read more...]
March 22, 2019
Researchers go hunting for Netflix’s Bandersnatch
A new research paper from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras explains how popular Netflix interactive show Bandersnatch could fall victim to a side-channel attack. In 2016, Netflix began adding TLS (Transport Layer Security) to their video content to ensure strangers couldn’t eavesdrop on viewer habits. Essentially, now the videos on Netflix are hidden away behind HTTPS—encrypted and … [Read more...]
March 21, 2019
