New Tech Support Scam Uses Microsoft Logo to Fake Browser Lock, Steal Data

The Cofense Phishing Defense Centre warns of a new tech support scam using Microsoft’s brand to lock browsers and steal data. Learn how the attack uses fake 'payment lures' and urgent security alerts to trick victims into calling a fraudulent support number...

A week in security (August 26 – September 1)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Iranian cybercriminals are targeting WhatsApp users in spear phishing campaign Fake Canva home page leads to browser lock Telegram CEO Pavel Durov charged with allowing criminal activity CODAC Behavioral Healthcare, US Marshalls are latest ransomware targets SMS...

Fake Canva home page leads to browser lock

In a previous blog post, we showed how fraudsters were leveraging features from the very company Microsoft they were impersonating. We continue this series with another clever trick abusing Canva, a popular online tool for graphic design. This time, the scammers registered an account on Canva to...

Tech support scam campaign targets Japanese visitors to PornHub

The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team has identified a malvertising campaign targeting Japanese users. The campaign they discovered was found to be using a cloaking technique to lure visitors of popular adult site PornHub to a decoy site at the domain mixhd.club. Cloaking Cloaking is a method...

FBI themed Mac OS X Ransomware Malware demands $300 Fine

Ransomware is a type of malware that attempts to extort money from a computer user by infecting and taking control of the victim's machine, or the files or documents stored on it. This kind of malware has typically been the domain of Windows users, but has made its way to OS X. A new piece of FBI...

Scientific Linux Security Update : conga on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in ricci during a code audit. A remote attacker who is able to connect to ricci could cause ricci to temporarily refuse additional connections, a denial of service CVE-2007-4136. Fixes in this updated package include : - The nodename is now set for manual fencing. - The node log ...