What they found was that the hackers had used sophisticated techniques and procedures that matched the attack on Pingdom owners, SolarWinds. Malwarebytes said, “Together, we performed an extensive investigation of both our cloud and on-premises environments for any activity related to the API calls that triggered the initial alert” and that “After an extensive investigation, we determined the attacker only gained access to a limited subset of internal company emails,” he also mentioned that they had checked the legacy code for any discrepancies but nothing unusual was found. It must be difficult for an antivirus software to come out and speak openly about hacking that they were the victim of, but Malwarebytes didn’t shy away from the issue and publicly came out with a statement. Malwarebytes investigation into the hacking Once the company was notified they quickly ran a full analysis of their system with the help of Microsoft’s Detection & Response Team (DART). The breach was picked up by none other than tech giant Microsoft, the third-party service provider that Malwarebytes was using and the company was notified by Microsoft Security Response Centre that they had noticed some unusual activity in their Office 360 tenant from a third party application. Unbeknownst to these companies, the malicious hacker group managed to breach its security and get access to their system. Malwarebytes is known globally for its reliable and effective product but it came to light that they were hacked in late 2020 by the Dark Halo hacker group that attacked Microsoft, SolarWinds, FireEye, and CrowdStrike. This all makes room for the likes of antivirus software company Malwarebytes to become increasingly popular, with many wanting constant checks on their devices and websites for the infamous malware threats.

We’ve become more knowledgeable on the likes of data protection through EU regulations like GDPR and learned about how we “drop” cookies as we surf the web. We’ve all become more conscious of the risk of online scammers and hackers, especially since we put more and more of our personal information into websites and apps on a daily basis.