Bitcoin cryptocurrency value is at its peak and the world is looking closely anything and everything around Bitcoin. Hackers are also trying to get a closer look at entry an exit points to find a way to break it and steal some bitcoins. Changelly is a cryptocurrency exchange service between digital currencies and hackers have targeted their […]
One of Checkpoint’s customer’s employee downloaded a malicious app called “EnergyRescue” which consisted of zero day mobile ransomeware (Doxware)from Google Play store. The ransomeware dubbed “Charger” and has appeared to be downloaded by millions of Android users. The ransomeware infected app gets access to contacts and SMS messages from the user’s device requesting admin permissions appears to be […]
New Variant of HummingBad malware found inside more than 20 apps on Google play infects millions Researchers from Checkpoint have discovered a dubbed HummingWhale Android malware, Hummingbad was found inside more than 20 Google play apps. One of the apps inside Google play with Hummingbad infection appears to have been downloaded more than a millions […]
The first Android banker malware (Android.BankBot.149.origin) of 2017 is already out and its source code is put on the web. This Android malware can steal users banking information and send it to CnC servers. The source code available on the web also means more variants of this malware will be seen in the wild very […] As security controls and defense measures for computer systems become more sophisticated, cyber criminals have taken one step ahead in the world of Ransomware. The most profitable ransomware attacks has taken a leap with doxing. What is Doxware ? “Ransomware is the art of encrypting data on a network, users PC or Mac and asking for […]
Security researchers from Malwarebytes have identified strange traffic originating from a Mac. The unusual traffic was identified by IT admins when investigated led to espionage malware describes as Quimitchin. (Apple calls this as ‘Fruitfly’) The malware appears to have been existed for a while and undetected for quite a long time. One of the timestamp […]
After Guardian’s post early on Whats App vulnerability was published last week, security experts from all over the word have been discussing the validity of this vulnerability and intensions behind it. Facebook denied this as a vulnerability going against Guardian and the intension behind it as design decision. However some of the most respected security […]
Researchers from Checkpoint have identified that a dubbed malware Gooligan has infected more than 1.3 million Android users globally. Android targeted malware campaign infects devices and steals authentication tokens which is then used to access data from Google apps such as Google play, Gmail, google photos google docs, google drive and many others. The malware […]
During the month of August, motherboard one of prominent online magazine released a report that more than 60 million account details were stolen from the cloud storage provider Dropbox. However now approx. 68 million Dropbox accounts are available to download by anyone.( Exact number as publish on ibtimes :68,680,741 accounts) During the month of September, […]
Last week KrebsOnSecurity.com was targeted by massive 620Gbps DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service Attack) and Kerbs had to take his site down for days. The decision of taking the site down was made after Akamai (aka Prolexic) decides that the pro bono service they were offering was costing them and their customers in millions and […]