Rich Matteo, a researcher here at Malwarebytes, came across an interesting sample that erases files and leaves a not-so-friendly message to…
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Protect Yourself This Semester with Cybersecurity Tips from Malwarebytes
What happens when you bring millions of 18- to 24-year-olds onto college and university campuses and have them connect to shared…
The Malware Archives: MS Office Files
Recently, I posted a blog about analyzing PDF files. In that post, we covered some basics of the PDF format and…
Alleged Hacker Blackmails Miss Teen USA
News reports are coming in that 19-year-old Cassidy Wolf (above) has received emails from an alleged hacker attempting to extort her.
Lock – Unlock, Biometrics Failure
I like gadgets, no, scratch that, I LOVE gadgets. With this in mind, I very often find myself an early adopter…
Chrome’s Stored Passwords
An oddity in Google’s Chrome allows you to reveal stored passwords saved by the popular browser. Software developer Elliot Kember came…
The Malware Archives: PDF Files
Chances are you’ve probably used Adobe Reader before to read Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Adobe Reader—formerly Acrobat Reader—remains the number…
How to encrypt files and folders
Encrypting files and folders is a way to protect them from unwanted access. Although modern Windows versions do have built-in options…
How to encrypt your email
Given recent events and worries about data-leaks and other privacy issues, you might find it handy to have some tools to…
Bi-Directional Trickery, (╯°□°)╯︵ oןɹ
Malware authors are known to try various obfuscation techniques in order to hide their malware. The Unicode Right-to-Left trick (RLO), which has…