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January 21, 2019

A week in security (January 14 – 20)

Last week on the Malwarebytes Labs blog, we took a look at how the government shutdown is influencing cybersecurity jobs, Advanced Persistent Threats group APT10, the comeback of Fallout EK, the hosting of malicious sites on legitimate servers, and the Collection 1 data breach. Other cybersecurity news New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia has gone offline after suffering a security … [Read more...]

Filed Under: APT10, ArsTechnica, BleepingComputer, CoinDesk, collection 1, cryptopia, cve-2019-0543, DAS, Fallout EK, fortnite, garmin, Garmin watch, hosting, HTTPS, oregon, powershell, PowerShell Team Blog, SC Media, Security world, shutdown, telegram, threadx, Week in security, youtube
October 1, 2018

A week in security (September 24 – 30)

Last week on Labs was a busy one. We discussed how SMS phishing attacks target the job market, issued a warning for TV Licensing phishes, commented on how Apple confused Safari users with recent changes to how OSX handles browser extensions, and elaborated on holes found in Mojave’s privacy protection—deep breath! We also showed how a buggy implementation of CVE-2018-8373 vulnerability is used to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CVE, CVE-2018-8373, facebook, Googlr, iPhoneXS, Lojax, Magecart, Microsoft, Mojave, mutagen astronomy, osx, phishing, port of san diego, quasar rat, safari extensions, Security world, sms phishing, telegram, TV licensing, unwanted calls, Week in security
April 11, 2018

Keeping your business and personal instant messages secure

Most people want to know their instant messages are securely wrapped up—whether that’s for personal privacy or making sure online scammers can’t grab the message content. If you’re sending text on a sensitive topic, or perhaps some photo attachments intended for one person only, you definitely wouldn’t want them falling into the wrong hands. The same goes for business; … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 101, How-tos, IM, instant message, instant messaging, Mobile, phone, secure, signal, telegram