by Antonio Delgado Ago 15 minutes …

As the cybersecurity company itself has recognized in a statement, Malwarebytes has been attacked by nationally organized cybercriminals detected in other past attacks whose origin could be the Russian government, according to the US recently pointed out.

The attackers gained access to internal Malwarebytes emails

The attack affected Malwarebytes environments equipped with Azure servers and Office systems 365, where the attacker got access internal company emails . According to the company itself, no further data, production environments, or local equipment at the company’s facilities were affected. Also the source code of your applications were not affected after checking it even by reverse engineering your own software.

The intrusion was detected after a warning by Microsoft when it detected suspicious activity of a foreign application in Office 365 with methods similar to a past attack on SolarWinds. Both Malwarebytes and Microsoft continue to investigate these attacks to gather more information.

Malwarebytes is a company known for its security solutions and its tool to eliminate malware on the pc to which we dedicate this guide.

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Antonio Delgado

Computer Engineer by training, writer and hardware analyst at Geeknetic since 2011. I love gutting everything that comes my way, especially the latest hardware that we get here for reviews. In my spare time I fiddle with 3d printers, drones and other gadgets. For anything here you have me.

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