Collaborate Disseminate
Here’s a Facebook phish which uses the incredibly old technique of blurring the supposed page underneath the login prompt. This is supposed to tantalise victims with what they could see if only they hand over login details. This tactic has been around … Continue reading Blurry previews and Facebook phishing
On July 29, we published a blog titled “PUP Friday: Cleaning up with 5 star awards”, taking a look at a registry cleaner called RegCleanPro made by Systweak. We detect the file in question as a PUP, and covered it as part of our regular PUP Friday seri… Continue reading Systweak Redux: our response
419 scams most commonly drop into your mailbox, but they do occasionally appear via other channels such as snail mail and social media. Today we’re going to take a look at an angle seemingly beloved of scammers everywhere – a specific character type cl… Continue reading Soldiering on: the $5.6 million 419 scam
We’ve looked at the social engineering tactic of inserting a fake account into a conversation with legitimate support channels in the past, and today – thanks to Techhelplist – we can observe another one, this time going after Natwest bank logins. See … Continue reading Scammers sneak into customer support conversations on Twitter
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| We recently sponsored a deep-dive study conducted by Osterman Research on the subject of Ransomware, and the results are a stark insight into one of the biggest problems facing both enterprise and home networks at the moment. Some key UK-centric findings: 40% of businesses worldwide attacked, but Senior UK IT staff suffered the highest number of…
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Continue reading The reality of Ransomware: an in-depth study
It’s been a busy few months for the Malwarebytes team. Infosec Europe, Chelsea FC, radio interviews, and a certain Blogger Awards that you may have voted on recently. How did we do? You’ll have to read on to find out!Categories: Conferences
Security w… Continue reading The IPExpo / Infosec Europe / Blogger Awards roundup
Scammers send a well known verified account a “Please authorize this app to become verified” message. Confusion follows.Categories: Cybercrime
Social engineeringTags: phishphishingscamscammertwitter(Read more…) Continue reading Avoid this “Authorize your Twitter account” phishing scam…
You know when you write about a Pokemon GO scam and casually mention how criminals use Lure Modules as bait for mugging victims? Of course you do (well, maybe not). As it turns out, the blogpost itself became a Pokemon-style lure – for comment section … Continue reading Our Pokemon Go blogpost becomes scammer bait…
Virtual reality is when you wear a helmet and flail your arms around at a computer generated game, hopefully without walking into a wall. Augmented reality is when you overlay computer generated elements onto the real world, using eyeglasses or looking… Continue reading Pokemon GO: Pokecoins survey scams choose you
Any Twitter feed can become a target for a compromise – even NASA…Categories: Cybercrime
PrivacyTags: compromisekeplerNASAtwitter(Read more…) Continue reading NASA Kepler Twitter feed compromised…