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...]
December 5, 2018
November 27, 2018
Malwarebytes’ 2019 security predictions
Every year, we at Malwarebytes Labs like to stare into our crystal ball and foretell the future of malware. Okay, maybe we don’t have a crystal ball, but we do have years and years of experience in observing trends and sensing shifts in patterns. When it comes to security, though, we can only know so much. For example, we guarantee there’ll be some kind of development that we had zero … [Read more...]
September 22, 2018
Emotet on the rise with heavy spam campaign
The threat landscape is changing once again, now that the ocean of cryptocurrency miners has shrunk to a small lake. Over the last couple months, we’ve seen cybercriminals lean back on tried and true methods of financial theft and extortion, with the rise of a familiar Banking Trojan: Emotet. However, over the last few days, we’ve noticed a large increase in malicious spam spreading … [Read more...]
