Steer clear of cryptocurrency recovery phrase scams

Categories: Personal

Tags: cryptocurrency

Tags: mark cuban

Tags: scam

Tags: phish

Tags: phishing

Tags: wallet

Tags: hot

Tags: cold

Tags: metamask

Tags: extension

Tags: browser

Tags: mobile

Tags: android

Tags: search engine

We take a look at a common cryptocurrency scam which focuses on your recovery phrase.

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Chrome will soon start removing extensions that may be unsafe

Categories: Personal

Tags: chrome

Tags: browser

Tags: rogue

Tags: malicious

Tags: malware

Tags: extension

Tags: remove

Tags: delete

Tags: uninstall

We take a look at news that Chrome will soon start asking users if they want to remove outdated extensions.

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Criminals target businesses with malicious extension for Meta’s Ads Manager and accidentally leak stolen accounts

Categories: Threat Intelligence

Tags: Meta

Tags: Facebook

Tags: malware

Tags: ads manager

Tags: chrome

Tags: extension

A group of criminals is actively targeting Facebook business users to gain access to their advertising accounts via malicious Chrome extensions. But we spotted that they made a mistake…

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Browser Guard combats privacy abuse, tracking, clickbait, and scammers

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:27:51 +0000

The free Malwarebytes Browser Guard extension combats privacy abuse, user tracking, clickbait, unwanted advertisements, and tech support scammers while offering granular control and faster browsing.

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Browlock flies under the radar with complete obfuscation

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:37:26 +0000

A new browlock (browser locker) steps up the game once more with soup to nuts obfuscation. Learn more about how it works and what you can do to protect against it.

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We block shady ad blockers

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:15:23 +0000

Some of you have reached out to us concerning Malwarebytes blocking of certain Ad blocking extensions, or an influx in web blocking notifications.  First things first, this is not a False Positive. 

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