CCleaner Adds Data Collection Feature With No Way to Opt-Out

Thursday, August 2nd, 2018

Like many others, do you also believe that the popular system-cleaning tool CCleaner was performing well before Avast acquired the software from Piriform last year? If yes, then pop-up advertisements in the previous CCleaner software version was not the last thing you have to deal with. Avast has released a new version ...

Introducing: Malwarebytes Browser Extension

Thursday, July 26th, 2018

Malwarebytes Browser Extension delivers a safer and faster web browsing experience. It blocks malicious websites and filters out unwanted content (resulting in up to three times faster webpage load times). The filtering is not based on definitions, so the extensions can block previously-unidentified fake tech support scams and their tactics. What ...

FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices

Friday, May 25th, 2018

The FBI is advising users of consumer-grade routers and network-attached storage devices to reboot them as soon as possible to counter Russian-engineered malware that has infected hundreds of thousands devices. Researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team first disclosed the existence of the malware on Wednesday. The detailed report said the malware ...

Rogue extensions that hijack Chrome & Firefox are near impossible to remove

Saturday, January 20th, 2018

As discovered by Malwarebytes researcher Pieter Arntz, a new pair of extensions plaguing Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox can hijack the browsers in order to push technical support scams at you and potentially even spy on your browsing activities. Called "Tiempo en colombia en vivo" on the Chrome Web Store, the ...

Hackers backdoored CCleaner for a month: Over 2 million infected with malware

Monday, September 18th, 2017

Hackers backdoored the popular CCleaner Windows utility; for nearly a month, two malware-tainted versions collected computer names, IP addresses, lists of installed and active software as well lists of network adapters before sending the data to attacker’s server. Cisco Talos, which discovered the malware on September 13 while a customer was ...