With news of a malware attack on accounting firm Wolters Kluwer causing a “quiet panic” in the accounting world this week, our assertion that financial institutions—from banks to brokers—are part of the vital infrastructure of society has been solidified. According to its website, Wolters Kluwer provides software and services to all of the top 100 accounting firms in the United … [Read more...]
May 10, 2019
April 29, 2019
A week in security (April 22 – 28)
Last week on Labs, we looked at security threats to headphones, privacy options in the world of law, and wandered through the FBI’s 2018 IC3 online crime report. We also explored another MageCart attack, and we released our 2019 Q1 Crime Tactics and Techniques report. Other cybersecurity news Fooling automated surveillance cameras: Bypassing neural network frameworks with colourful abstract … [Read more...]
April 25, 2019
Labs Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques report finds businesses hit with 235 percent more threats in Q1
The Malwarebytes Labs Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques Q1 2019 report found businesses at the butt end of a bad joke. In just one year, threats aimed at corporate targets have increased by 235 percent, with Trojans, such as Emotet, and ransomware in particular revving up in the first quarter. Included in the report is analysis of sharp declines in consumer cryptomining and other threats, … [Read more...]
April 1, 2019
Compromising vital infrastructure: water management
It’s probably unnecessary to explain why water management is considered part of our vital infrastructure, but it’s a wider field than you might expect—and almost every one of its components can be integral to our survival. We all need clean water to drink. As much as I like my coffee, I can’t make it with contaminated liquids. And the farmers that grow our coffee need water to irrigate … [Read more...]
March 18, 2019
A week in security (March 11 – 17)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at the Lazarus group in our series about APT groups, we discussed the introduction of Payment Service Directive 2 (PSD2) in the EU, we tackled Google’s Nest fiasco, and the launch of Mozilla’s Firefox Send. In addition, we gave you an overview of the pervasive threat, Emotet, and we discussed reputation management in the age of cyberattacks against … [Read more...]
March 14, 2019
Emotet revisited: pervasive threat still a danger to businesses
One of the most common and pervasive threats for businesses today is Emotet, a banking Trojan turned downloader that has been on our list of top 10 detections for many months in a row. Emotet, which Malwarebytes detects as Trojan.Emotet, has been leveled at consumers and organizations across the globe, fooling users into infecting endpoints through phishing emails, and then spreading laterally … [Read more...]
February 18, 2019
A week in security (February 11 – 17)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs we discussed the return of the Sextortion Bitcoin scams, we gave you an early overview of the exploit kits in the winter of 2019, we talked about the destruction of VFEmail service, for consumers we discussed whether you should remove yourself from social media, for businesses we discussed the implementation of an anti-phishing plan, and the concept of whole team … [Read more...]
January 23, 2019
2019 State of Malware report: Trojans and cryptominers dominate threat landscape
Each quarter, the Malwarebytes Labs team gathers to share intel, statistics, and analysis of the tactics and techniques made popular by cybercriminals over the previous three months. At the end of the year, we synthesize this data into one all-encompassing report—the State of Malware report—that aims to follow the most important threats, distribution methods, and other trends that shaped the … [Read more...]
January 8, 2019
December 5, 2018
New ‘Under the Radar’ report examines modern threats and future technologies
As if you haven’t heard it enough from us, the threat landscape is changing. It’s always changing, and usually not for the better. The new malware we see being developed and deployed in the wild have features and techniques that allow them to go beyond what they were originally able to do, either for the purpose of additional infection or evasion of detection. To that end, we decided … [Read more...]
