"Explain, Don'T Just Warn!" -- a Real-Time Framework for Generating Phishing Warnings with Contextual Cues

Anti-phishing tools typically display generic warnings that offer users limited explanation on why a website is considered malicious, which can prevent end-users from developing the mental models needed to recognize phishing cues on their own. This becomes especially problematic when these tools...

A week in security (August 1 - August 7)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Have we lost the fight for data privacy? Lock and Code S03E16 Wrestling star Mick Foleys Twitter compromised, selling PS5 consoles Millions of Arris routers are vulnerable to path traversal attacks When a sextortion victim fights back How to protect yourself and yo...

USN-4756-1 firefox vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information, conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks, bypass HTTP auth phishing warning...

Kaspersky: Web protection component in Anti-Virus products family uses predictable links for certificate warnings

Summary Websites can predict links used in certificate warnings, Safe Money prompts, anti-phishing warnings and similar pages. This allows them to initiate actions without the user's knowledge. Description The links used to override certificate warnings have the following format: https:///?kiscup...

Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR and Thunderbird Security Bypass Vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR and Thunderbird are all developed by the Mozilla Foundation.Firefox is an open source web browser, Firefox ESR is an extended support version of Firefox.Thunderbird is a standalone email client from the Mozilla Thunderbird is a separate email client from Mozilla...

Study Finds Internet Users Follow Browser Security Warnings

Users heed Web browser security warnings more than previously thought, according to research unveiled this week. The research is part of first in-depth large-scale field study of browser security warnings, according to Devdatta Akhawe of the University of California, Berkeley and Adrienne Porter...