Games consoles and handhelds have always been an interesting battleground for hacking activities. The homebrew scene for using hardware in interesting ways has a long and varied history, especially where porting games to run on different platforms is concerned. Tampering with games while playing them to gain a distinct advantage has always been frowned upon by the majority of players and … [Read more...]
June 3, 2020
May 26, 2020
Lock and Code S1Ep7: Sounding the trumpet on web browser privacy with Pieter Arntz
This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Pieter Arntz, malware intelligence researcher at Malwarebytes, about web browser privacy—an often neglected subcategory of data privacy. Without the proper restrictions, browsers can allow web trackers to follow you around the Internet, resulting in … [Read more...]
May 14, 2020
Sodinokibi drops greatest hits collection, and crime is the secret ingredient
When a group of celebrities ask to speak with their lawyer, they usually don’t have to call in a bunch of other people to go speak with their lawyer. However, in this case it may well be a thing a little down the line. A huge array of musicians including Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Run DMC and many more have had documents galore pilfered by the Sodinokibi gang.Around 756GB of files … [Read more...]
March 25, 2020
Criminals hack Tupperware website with credit card skimmer
On March 20, Malwarebytes identified a targeted cyberattack against household brand Tupperware and its associated websites that is still active today. We attempted to alert Tupperware immediately after our discovery, but none of our calls or emails were answered. Threat actors compromised the official tupperware[.]com site—which averages close to 1 million monthly visits—as well as a few of its … [Read more...]
March 5, 2020
Technology and the power of moral panic
Moral panic is a fascinating topic, and often finds itself tied up in the cutting edge-technology of the times once it works its way into the hands of younger generations. Music, games, movies—pretty much anything you can think of is liable to gatecrash the “won’t somebody think of the children?” party no matter how well-meaning or patently silly it is. Last month, a poster was making the rounds … [Read more...]
February 14, 2020
Misleading cybersecurity lessons from pop culture: how Hollywood teaches to hack
In pop culture, cybercrimes are often portrayed as mysterious and unrealistic. Hackers are enigmatic and have extraordinary tech abilities. They can discover top secrets in a short time and type at breakneck speed to hack into a database. In real life, though, hacking is not that straightforward. Hackers may have technical capabilities and high intelligence, but they are otherwise normal human … [Read more...]
January 30, 2020
Securing the MSP: their own worst enemy
We’ve previously discussed threats to managed service providers (MSPs), covering their status as a valuable secondary target to both an assortment of APT groups as well as financially motivated threat groups. The problem with covering new and novel attack vectors, however, is that behind each new vector is typically a system left unpatched, asset management undone, a security officer not … [Read more...]
November 20, 2019
Disney+ security and service issues: Here’s what we know so far
The long wait is over. Disney+, the new video-streaming service to rival Netflix and Amazon Prime, debuted last week to much fanfare, racking up 10 million subscribers within a single day of launch. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the kind of splash the majority of users predicted, as they were met with connection and performance issues out the gate—soon to be followed by reports of hacked accounts … [Read more...]
November 11, 2019
September 24, 2019
15,000 webcams vulnerable to attack: how to protect against webcam hacking
Webcams may have been around for a long time, but that doesn’t mean we know what we’re doing with them. Webcam hacking has been around for equally as long, yet new research from Wizcase indicates that more than 15,000 private, web-connected cameras are exposed and readily accessible to the general public. So forget hacking, cybercriminals can just take a stroll through the Internet and grab … [Read more...]
