A week in security (January 13 – 19)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we taught you how to prevent a rootkit attack, explained what data enrichment means, informed you about new rules on deepfakes in the US, and demonstrated how backdoors in elastic servers expose private data. Other cybersecurity news An online group of cybersecurit...

Business in the front, party in the back: backdoors in elastic servers expose private data

It seems like every day we read another article about a data breach or leak of cloud storage exposing millions of users' data. The unfortunate truth is that the majority of these leaks require no actual "hacking" on the part of the attacker. Most of the time, this highly confidential data is just...