Any game with an online component can be at risk from a practice known as Real Money Trading (RMT), where in-game…
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A week in security (August 9 – August 15)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Other cybersecurity news: Stay safe, everyone!
The life and death of the ZeuS Trojan
Whether you’ve read up on Greek mythology or you’re simply a big fan of Marvel comics, the name “Zeus” should be…
Nope, that isn’t Elon Musk, and he isn’t offering a free Topmist Dust watch either
Elon Musk is an incredibly popular target for scammers and spammers on social media. Attach his name to something he has…
Malspam banks on Kaseya ransomware attack
The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence Team recently found a malicious spam campaign making the rounds and banking on the ransomware attack that…
Second colossal LinkedIn “breach” in 3 months, almost all users affected
LinkedIn has reportedly been breached—again—following reports of a massive sale of information scraped from 500M LinkedIn user profiles in the underground…
Hotel staff bust Hermes SMS scammer with suspiciously large number of cables
If you’re in the UK, you’ve likely received a fake delivery SMS at this point. The original big driver for this…
What Google learned from 1 billion evil email scams
Google and researchers at Stanford University have released an in-depth study analysing 5 months of phishing / malware mails sent globally….
November spam roundup: Stalkers, property tips, porn, stern words and PayPal
Today we’re rounding up some of the interesting pieces of spam currently in circulation, taking in everything from housing deals to…
QBot Trojan delivered via malspam campaign exploiting US election uncertainties
This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura and Hossein Jazi. The 2020 US elections have been the subject of intense…