A week in security (June 8 – 14)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked into nasty search hijackers that worried a lot of Chrome users; a list of considerations for MSPs when looking for an RMM platform; the complaint faced by ParetoLogic, the company that issues SpeedyPC, a product that claims to find and remove various PC...

Malware and Spam Campaigns Related to Bin Laden Not Finding Many Takers

As has become their custom, attackers and malware authors jumped on the death of Osama Bin Laden Monday, using black hat SEO, Facebook scams and Twitter spam. However, unlike other recent major news events, the attempts to lure people into clicking on malicious links or downloading Trojaned files...

Experts Warn Of Japan Earthquake, Tsunami Spam

As the Pacific Rim braces for deadly Tsunami’s spawned by today’s magnitude 8.9 earthquake in Japan, the SANS Internet Storm Center says users should be on the lookout for a different kind of Tsunami: scam e-mail and Web pages looking to turn curiosity about the events in Japan into illicit gain...

Protozoids Tap Veterans Day Sentiment To Push Malware

How will you know when your dabbling in pharmaceutical spam and affiliate marketing hi jinks have truly poisoned your soul and stolen the last shreds of humanity you had left? Well, probably around the time that you find yourself taking advantage of public sentiment for the sacrifices of our men...

Stuxnet Media Storm Now Feeding SEO Attacks?

How do you know when a computer virus has officially jumped the fence to become a media sensation? Probably when scammers start using popular interest in it as bait for their own malware. So it is with the Stuxnet worm, which was identified in July, but has become the focus of intense media...

Updated Android Trojan Pushed in SEO Attacks

Mobile attacks may have reached a tipping point, as researchers observe search engine optimization used to spread a malicious program for mobile devices running the Android operating system. One month after researchers first identified a Trojan horse program that targets mobile devices running...