SMS Phishing Campaign Targets Mobile Bank App Users in North America

A mobile phishing campaign that targeted customers of more than a dozen North American banks, including Chase, Royal Bank of Canada and TD Bank, managed to hook nearly 4,000 victims. The attacks used an automated SMS tool to blast bogus security text messages to mobile phone users between June an...

This Week in Security News: February 2020 Patch Tuesday Update and Misconfigured AWS S3 Bucket Leaks 36,000 Inmate Records

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about the more than 140 February Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft and Adobe. Also, read about how an unsecured and unencrypted...

Puerto Rico Gov Hit By $2.6M Phishing Scam

A phishing scam has swindled a Puerto Rico government agency out of more than $2.6 million, according to reports. According to reports, the email-based phishing scam hit Puerto Rico’s Industrial Development Company, which is a government-owned corporation aimed at driving economic development to...

FBI: $3.5B Lost in 2019 to Known Cyberscams, Ransomware

Cybercriminals are focusing on previously successful internet scams to defraud businesses and individuals in the United States out of more money than ever before, according to the FBI’s annual report on cybercrime. Meanwhile, ransomware continues to take a big financial toll on victims. Businesse...

Active PayPal Phishing Scam Targets SSNs, Passport Photos

A recently uncovered phishing campaign, targeting PayPal users, pulls out all the stops and asks victims for the complete spectrum of personal data – even going so far as to ask for social security numbers and uploaded photos of their passports. The campaign starts with a fairly run-of-the-mill...

Community Housing Nonprofit Hit with $1.2M Loss in BEC Scam

A non-profit community housing collective has been swindled out of more than $1.2 million in a business email compromise BEC campaign. Red Kite Community Housing, a coop housing association in High Wycombe, U.K. outside of London announced in a recent website notice that £932,000 of the money pai...

A week in security (January 27 – February 2)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at the strengths and weaknesses of the Zero Trust model, gave you the low-down on spear phishing, and took a delve into the world of securing the managed service provider MSP. Other cybersecurity news UN compromised via Sharepoint hack: An extraordinary...

Ashley Madison Breach Extortion Scam Targets Hundreds

Nearly five years after the high-profile Ashley Madison data breach, hundreds of impacted website users are being targeted by a new extortion attack this past week. The 2015 data breach of the adultery website led to 32 million accounts being publicly dumped online, including victims’ names,...

A week in security (January 20 – 26)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we reported on a Ryuk ransomware attack on The Tampa Bay Times, a newspaper in Florida; unmasked an elaborate browser locking scheme behind the more advanced tech support operations that are currently active; and looked at the latest laws on regulating deepfakes...

WOOF locker: Unmasking the browser locker behind a stealthy tech support scam operation

Update 01-27-2020: Shortly after this blog was published we noticed that a large part of the infrastructure behind this browlock was taken down. The malicious server responsible for redirections is no longer responding and we have not observed any new live browlock from this 2 year old campaign. ...

New sextortion scam claims to record you with hacked Google Nest cam

By Waqas The difference between conventional sextortion campaigns and this one is that the victim has to go through... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New sextortion scam claims to record you with hacked Google Nest cam...

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...

This Week in Security News: The First Patch Tuesday Update of 2020 and Pwn2Own Vancouver Announced

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about a major crypto-spoofing bug impacting Windows 10 that has been fixed as part of Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday update. Also,...

Scammers Dupe Texas School District Out of $2.3M

A Texas school district, based outside of Austin, Tex., has lost $2.3 million after falling victim to an email scam. The Manor Independent School District encompasses 8,000 students from elementary to high school. Police told local news outlets that the incident started in early November and...

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:0003-1 Security update for MozillaThunderbird

This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the following issues: Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to 68.3esr MFSA 2019-38 bsc1158328 Security issues fixed: - CVE-2019-17008: Fixed a use-after-free in worker destruction bmo1546331 - CVE-2019-13722: Fixed a stack corruption due to incorrect number of...

Security update for MozillaThunderbird (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for MozillaThunderbird Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0003-1 Rating: important References: Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 An update that contains security fixes can now be installed. Description: This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the...

The Army Bans TikTok

A million-dollar email scam, a Chinese hacking campaign, and more of the week's top security news...

This Week in Security News: December Patch Tuesday Updates and Retail Cyberattacks Set to Soar 20 Percent During 2019 Holiday Season

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about the threat campaign Waterbear and how it uses API hooking to evade security product detection. Also, read about December Patch...

This Alleged Bitcoin Scam Looked a Lot Like a Pyramid Scheme

Five men face federal charges of bilking investors of $722 million by inviting them to buy shares in bitcoin mining pools...

Open Redirect Payload List

Unvalidated redirects and forwards are possible when a web application accepts untrusted input that could cause the web application to redirect the request to a URL contained within untrusted input. By modifying untrusted URL input to a malicious site, an attacker may successfully launch a phishi...