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Researchers from Metaspolit have discovered a major flow on devices running Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) & prior versions that no longer receive official security updates from Android security team for WebView. Webview is one of core component for Google store. Attackers can easily install the malware app and perform malicious actions. Due to a lack […]
Malware on Android is not new anymore but this time adware has taken over Google play with approx 10 million downloads. Avast researchers have identified three apps that might have millions of downloads. The apps identified are “Durak card game app”, “IQ Test” app and “Russian History” app from three different developers performing the same […]
With the advent of Instagram’s popularity, an entirely new opportunity for hackers and creators of malware has arisen. A popular fad among Instagram’s users is to use outside developer’s software in order to view and save photos off of the image site. Instagram has now surpassed Twitter in number of users, which means that there […]
The French phone company Orange has been the victim of a hack that risks the personal information of 1.3 million customers. That’s 1.3 million people’s names, phone numbers, e-mails, dates of birth, and more accessed by cyber criminals. Perhaps most shocking is the fact that this hasn’t happened once– but twice this year. Orange was […]
Researchers from nominum identified a massive set of of DNS-based DDoS amplification attacks have significantly increased in the recent months, targeting vulnerable home routers globally. ( A DNS amplification attack is a reflection-based distributed denial of service (DDos) attack ) Home routers are the easiest vector of attack because […]
Author : Arun Hegde , Security Architect @arun25 Here is a quick summary about my experience at RSA Conference 2014 – San Francisco last month Highlights of RSA 2014 : Some of the highlights at this year at RSA was cloud security, mobile security ( specially for enterprise), more companies providing SIEM solutions and lot of new […]
Facebook had a long list of vulnerabilities and their Security team is incapable in dealing with the real world security. Unfortunately their mission of making the world open also aligns with Security principles as well. This is just the opinion and may not be the reality. This vulnerability still exists and the author says in […]
Dendroid, the next generation Crimeware toolkit which can convert apps to malware , is available in underground market for only $300. It also comes with a 24 hour support if you are stuck up on your way. Symantec mentioned that this is evolution of AndroRAT( first ever malware APK binder). Dendroid is a HTTP RAT that […]
One more bad news to the world of Bitcoin was announced today after Mt. Gox. “Bitcoin bank” Alberta, Canada-based Flexcoin and Bitcoin exchange Poloniex have announced that they have been targeted by hackers. The company said “As Flexcoin does not have the resources, assets, or otherwise to come back from this loss, we are closing […]
Researchers have identified a tricky Android malware spreading via facebook advertising. When Facebook is accessed from an Android device, users may see messages under Facebook adverting under “Suggested Post”. Some of the identified ads read as “WhatsApp tips like: “Want to know how to see your contacts’ chats on WhatsApp?” “Want to hide your WhatsApp […]