An increasing amount of mobile malware known as Android/Trojan.AndroRAT has been seen in the wild lately. AndroRAT is a contraction of…
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From a fake wallet to a Java RAT
This malware came in a phishing e-mail – disguised as a Bitcoin wallet. After clicking the link, user receives a JAR…
New Mac backdoor using antiquated code
The first Mac malware of 2017 was brought to my attention by an IT admin, who spotted some strange outgoing network traffic from…
Clickjacking campaign abuses Google Adsense, avoids ad fraud bots
Ad fraud is one of many issues that contribute to the ad industry’s negative image these days. Unlike malvertising which affects…
Tech support scam page triggers denial-of-service attack on Macs
Tech support scammers have been using various themes to push fake alerts to scare users into calling for assistance. These fall into…
Goldeneye Ransomware – the Petya/Mischa combo rebranded
From March 2016 we’ve observed the evolution of an interesting low-level ransomware, Petya – you can read about it here. The second…
A closer look at a tech support screen locker
In this blog post, we are going to take a closer look at some of the code that the most predominant…
Ransomware tries its hand at being a deadly viral meme
Memes are weird things and weren’t always about lolcats or frogs or whatever the latest terrible image macro doing the rounds…
Announcing Malwarebytes 3.0, a next-generation antivirus replacement
I am thrilled to announce the launch of our next-generation product, Malwarebytes 3.0! This product is built to provide comprehensive protection…
Simple userland rootkit – a case study
Rootkits are tools and techniques used to hide (potentially malicious) modules from being noticed by system monitoring. Many people, hearing the…