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Gartner has recognized Malwarebytes as a “visionary” in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms. Malwarebytes was selected for its completeness of vision and ability to execute.
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Researchers routinely discover a variety of malicious apps on Google Play, some of which have been downloaded and installed on millions of devices worldwide. Here’s what infosec experts think about the security of Google Play, what they think Google sh… Continue reading Infosec expert viewpoint: Google Play malware
Learn why Malwarebytes is blocking a sub-domain of an adult website.
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Malware peddlers have been quick to react to the cryptocurrency boom and to take advantage of every possible way to make other people and organizations mine coins for them. They trick victims into installing mining software, hijack their CPU’s po… Continue reading RIG EK covertly delivers cryptocurrency miners
Cryptojacking makes surfing the web similar to walking through a minefield: you never know when you might land on a booby-trapped site. Stealthy cryptocurrency mining scripts have found their way to a variety of websites – streaming, gaming, onli… Continue reading How to keep your browser and devices safe from cryptojackers
Tara Seals for Infosecurity Magazine: Tech Support Scam Malware Fakes the Blue Screen of Death “The infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is one of the most-dreaded sights for Windows users. Adding insult to injury, a new malware is making th… Continue reading Fake BSOD, Fake Tech Support
In-browser cryptocurrency mining is, in theory, a neat idea: make users’ computers “mine” Monero for website owners so they don’t have to bombard users with ads in order to earn money. Unfortunately, in this far-from-ideal world… Continue reading Stealthy in-browser cryptomining continues even after you close window
The malware quarantine feature in several antivirus products could have been abused by local attackers to gain administrative privileges on computers. The issue, dubbed AVGater, was discovered by Florian Bogner, a researcher with security firm Kapsch. It exploits a user’s ability to restore suspicious files that antivirus programs have moved to quarantine. Bogner found a..
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As more and more Coinhive clones continue popping up, chances of users’ CPU power being hijacked for cryptocurrency mining are rising. According to Malwarebytes’ latest figures, their AV solution blocked an average of 8 million cryptojacking attempts per day from late September to late October. And that’s just the attempts tied to Coinhive domains and proxies! Censys’s search engine reveals that nearly 900 of the top one million most visited sites runs the Coinhive script. … More → Continue reading The Wild West of drive-by cryptocurrency mining
Since September 19, the number two most frequently blocked website for our customers has been coinhive.com. This post will describe what CoinHive is, what it is doing, and why we are blocking it.
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