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Visualizing cyber attacks around the world has become easier than before and its made real by Google & Arbor Networks. A joint collaboration between the two companies resulted in ‘Digital Attack map” tool. The usability of the tool is not still expanded but the beautiful graphical page shows various points of ho the attack takes […]
As per F-Secure labs, 259 new mobile threat families and variants of existing families were discovered in the third quarter of 2013. The growing concern in Google Play are the apps that violate privacy by over collection of data. Screenshots from below from F-Secure reports shows the threats. […] iOS 7 release was a major news for Apple users. Its unbelievable to see how many users want the cool new Operating system. This is always the fun part every year when something new comes from Apple. This time its for the new powerful Apple iOS7 release on September 18th. As reported on SANS, the […] Microsoft releases Security advisory 2887505 which infected all versions of Internet Explorer. Currently based on Microsoft’s observation all targeted attacks directed for Internet Explorer 8 and 9. As per Microsoft “ This issue could allow remote code execution if an affected system browses to a website containing malicious content directed towards the specific browser type. […] A underground hacker from Russia with handle ‘fil9” posted a zero day android exploit for sale. (screenshot below) This zero day exploit works on Firefox 23/24/26 as claimed by the author. Joshua from Malwarebytes spotted this advertisement on Inj3ct0r, an exploit database, where the author was selling the zero day for $460 Us dollars. As […] We have seen fingerprint reader, face recognition authentication for a while. Smartphone manufacturers have been rumoring about this and Apple finally introduces it. Apple announced their new IPhone 5s with fingerprint reader yesterday. It’s a cool factor to have fingerprint instead of the password or pattern based authentication. Apple claims that fingerprint is stored local […] Maladvertisers targeted L.A. Times sending its thousands of users to Blackhole exploit kit and other malicious sites. Security researcher’s from Blue Coat have discovered a set of malicious domains sending traffic to the searcherstypediscksruns dot com/.net/.org family of Blackhole sites, including adhidclick.com, ortclick.com and several other affiliated sites. These sites were registered During December 2012 […] Recently Roger from posted a question regarding increased traffic on TOR network. After NSA’s surveillance the first suspect was assuming internet users have started using tor network to surf anonymously. However the exponential increased intraffic showed its something more than just the users. The suspect was it must be a botnet. Even Arma posted saying […] According to Securelist.com, Obad.a infects in two steps along with another mobile Trojan named as TrojanSMS.AndroidOS.Opfake.a. This Trojan was noted as one of the most sophisticated Trojan by Kaspersky this May. The infection starts when a legitimate user gets a text message with following text. “MMS message has been delivered, download from www.otkroi.com”. When a […] ESET researchers have spotted a new malware spreading campaign targeting online banking users in Turkey, the Czech Republic, Portugal and the United Kingdom. It uses phishing campaigns related to trustworthy organizations to infect user machines. Based on Esset analysis, the new banking Trojan Hesperbot with functionality similar to the most notorious Zeus & Spyeye. However […]