Category: MalwareBytes

several patches
11
Apr
2024

Microsoft’s April 2024 Patch Tuesday includes two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities

The April 2024 Patch Tuesday update includes patches for 149 Microsoft vulnerabilities and republishes 6 non-Microsoft CVEs. Three of those…

A 13-year-old girl is using her smartphone in the dark room. The content she is browsing projects in front of her.
10
Apr
2024

How to protect yourself from online harassment

It takes a little to receive a lot of online hate today, from simply working as a school administrator to…

Introducing the Digital Footprint Portal
10
Apr
2024

Introducing the Digital Footprint Portal

Digital security is about so much more than malware. That wasn’t always the case.  When I started Malwarebytes more than…

Change Healthcare logo
10
Apr
2024

New ransomware group demands Change Healthcare ransom

The Change Healthcare ransomware attack has taken a third cruel twist. A new ransomware group, RansomHub, has listed the organisation…

Oil refinery petrochemical industrial at night
09
Apr
2024

Active Nitrogen campaign delivered via malicious ads for PuTTY, FileZilla

In the past couple of weeks, we have observed an ongoing campaign targeting system administrators with fraudulent ads for popular…

Black mask on white background.
09
Apr
2024

35-year long identity theft leads to imprisonment for victim

Sometimes the consequences of a stolen identity exceed anything you could have imagined. Matthew David Keirans, a 58-year-old former hospital…

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08
Apr
2024

Porn panic imperils privacy online, with Alec Muffett (re-air): Lock and Code S05E08

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… A digital form of protest could become the go-to response for the…

week in security
08
Apr
2024

A week in security (April 1 – April 7)

A list of topics we covered in the week of April 1 to April 7 of 2024 Last week on…

a small business office
07
Apr
2024

60% of small businesses are concerned about cybersecurity threats

According to a recent poll by the US Chamber of Commerce, 60% of small businesses are concerned about cybersecurity threats,…

stealing from cookie jar
05
Apr
2024

Despite EU regulations websites still have their hand in the cookie jar

In news that is, sadly, unlikely to shock you, new research indicates that many websites ignore visitors’ choices to refuse…

Bing ad for NordVPN leads to SecTopRAT
04
Apr
2024

Bing ad for NordVPN leads to SecTopRAT

Most of the malicious search ads we have seen have originated from Google, but threat actors are also abusing other…

Jackson County
04
Apr
2024

Jackson County hit by ransomware, declares state of emergency

On April 2, 2024, Jackson County tweeted that it had identified significant disruptions within its IT systems, “potentially attributable to…