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Crafty Web Skimming Domain Spoofs “https”

March 17, 2020 admin .ps, A Little Sunshine, Akamai, cheney bros. inc., content security policy, denis sinegubko, grandwesternsteaks.com, Jerome Segura, Malwarebytes, privacy.com, publicwww, ryan barnett, subresource integrity, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:28:57 +0000

Earlier today, KrebsOnSecurity alerted the 10th largest food distributor in the United States that one of its Web sites had been hacked and retrofitted with code that steals credit card and login data. While such Web site card skimming attacks are not new, this intrusion leveraged a sneaky new domain that hides quite easily in a hacked site’s source code: “http[.]ps” (the actual malicious domain does not include the brackets, which are there to keep readers from being able to click on it).

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Threat spotlight: RobbinHood ransomware takes the driver’s seat

February 20, 2020 admin .enc_robbinhood, Anti-Ransomware, baltimore, bitcoin, greenville, Malwarebytes, ransom, ransom note, ransomware, ransomware rollback, robbinhood, Robbinhood ransomware, rollback, threat spotlight

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 18:09:03 +0000

RobbinHood a is a ransomware family that specifically targets organizations using a vulnerable kernel driver to prepare systems for encryption. Learn how to protect against it.

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Would ‘Medicare for All’ help secure health data?

November 26, 2019 admin adam kujawa, amca, American Medical Collection Agency, blue cross blue shield, breaches, CMS, cybercrime, department of health and human services, dominion national, Electronic Frontier Foundation, gao, Government, government accountability office, healthcare, healthcare.gov, heatlhcare, HHS, insurance, interoperability, Malwarebytes, malwarebytes labs, medicare for all, online privacy act of 2019, os inc, prema blue cross, privacy, Security world, solara medical supplies, spectrum health lakeland, third-party services, wolverine solutions group

Credit to Author: Adam Kujawa| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:30:10 +0000

Beyond the usual arguments on this subject, we wanted to ask the question: Are there any security risks we need to be worried about if the United States were to switch to ‘Healthcare for All’ policies?

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Malwarebytes teams up with security vendors and advocacy groups to launch Coalition Against Stalkerware

November 19, 2019 admin coalition against stalkerware, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, european network for the work with perpetrators of domestic violence, g data, kaspersky, Malwarebytes, Malwarebytes news, Monitor, monitoring app, monitoring applications, monitoring apps, National Network to End Domestic Violence, nnedv, Operation Safe Escape, stalkerware, weisser ring

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:00:00 +0000

Today, Malwarebytes is announcing its participation in a joint effort to stop invasive digital surveillance: the Coalition Against Stalkerware.

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Browser Guard combats privacy abuse, tracking, clickbait, and scammers

September 19, 2019 admin ad blocking, browser, browser guard, browser safety, browser security, Browsers, control, extension, faster load times, Malwarebytes, malwarebytes browser guard, Malwarebytes news, plugin, plugins, privacy, tracker, trackers

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:27:51 +0000

The free Malwarebytes Browser Guard extension combats privacy abuse, user tracking, clickbait, unwanted advertisements, and tech support scammers while offering granular control and faster browsing.

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Ransomware isn’t just a big city problem

May 31, 2019 admin adam kujawa, avoidance, backup, baltimore, baltimore ransomware, greenville, Malwarebytes, phishing, preparation, ransomware, ransomware avoidance, ransomware tips, robbinhood, robinhood, spear phishing

Credit to Author: Adam Kujawa| Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 15:00:00 +0000

The city of Baltimore has experienced a very public ransomware attack. But in a season of increasing ransomware detections among organizations, they’re not alone. See which cites have been most impacted by ransomware and what organizations can do to develop resilience against attacks.

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A user’s right to choose: Why Malwarebytes detects Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs)

January 25, 2019 admin enigma, Malwarebytes, Malwarebytes news, potentially unwanted programs, PUP criteria, pups, SpyHunter

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:00:00 +0000

By identifying and detecting Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs), Malwarebytes protects its users while giving them the right to choose whether they continue using their services. Learn why we do this, and how software programs can be reconsidered as legitimate under our PUP criteria.

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New ‘Under the Radar’ report examines modern threats and future technologies

December 5, 2018 admin apac, Artificial Intelligence, behavioral detection, blocking at delivery, emea, emotet, EternalBlue, Exploits, fileless, fileless malware, future of cybercrime, malicious spam, Malwarebytes, Malwarebytes news, Powershell, report, SamSam, sorebrect, Texas, trickbot, under the radar, web blocking, web protection, worm

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:01:44 +0000

Malwarebytes released a new report called “Under the Radar: The Future of Undetected Malware” that takes a look at current threats using next generation tricks, and how current security technologies stand up to these threats, as well as the threats to come.

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