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Malwarebytes hires Adam Hyder as its new Senior Vice President of Engineering
Malwarebytes, a leading advanced endpoint detection and remediation solution provider, announced that it has hired Adam Hyder as its new Senior Vice President of Engineering. …
Mac threats are growing faster than their Windows counterparts
Mac threats growing faster than their Windows counterparts for the first time ever, with nearly twice as many Mac threats detected per endpoint as Windows threats, according …
Healthcare spikes data breach fever, endpoint threat detections grow 60%
The healthcare industry has been overwhelmingly targeted by Trojan malware during the last year, which increased by 82 percent in Q3 2019 over the previous quarter, according …
Users are too confident in their protection from threats
Most users care about online privacy and take some steps to make sure their data is protected, a new Malwarebytes survey has revealed. But some protection measures are too …
Trickbot becomes one of the most dangerous pieces of modular malware hitting enterprises
Along with Emotet, Trickbot has become one of the most versatile and dangerous pieces of modular malware hitting enterprise environments. Most recently, its creators have …
Emotet: A veritable Swiss Army knife of malicious capabilities
Formerly just a banking Trojan, Emotet is now one of the most dangerous and multifaceted malware out there. According to Malwarebytes, it and Trickbot are part of the reason …
Cybercriminals increasingly taking aim at businesses
2018 has been the year when cryptominers first dethroned ransomware as the most prevalent threat due to a meteoric spike in Bitcoin value in late 2017, then slowly trailed off …
Tech support scammers leverage “evil cursor” technique to “lock” Chrome
Tech scammers are constantly coming up with new techniques to make users panic and seek their bogus services. The latest one, documented by Malwarebytes researchers, has been …
Nearly 15% of US security budgets go to remediating active compromises
Malwarebytes and Osterman Research have polled 900 senior IT decision-makers and IT security professionals in Australia, Germany, the US, UK, and Singapore about the impact of …
Thousands of WP, Joomla and SquareSpace sites serving malicious updates
Thousands of compromised WordPress, Joomla and SquareSpace-based sites are actively pushing malware disguised as Firefox, Chrome and Flash Player updates to visitors. This …
Millions of Android devices forced to mine Monero for crooks
No device is safe from criminals looking to make it stealthily mine cryptocurrency for them. However weak its processing power is, it still costs them nothing. With that in …
Mac crypto miner distributed via MacUpdate, other software download sites
Software download site/aggregator MacUpdate has been spotted delivering a new Mac crypto miner to users. A new Mac cryptominer was being distributed from hacked MacUpdate …