Collaborate Disseminate
The Register: ‘Mummy, what’s felching?’ Tot gets smut served by Android app – Google’s Play Store fails again Actually, I didn’t know about felching, either, and I wish I hadn’t looked it up. Based on… Continue reading ‘AdultSwine’ – Android malware with a dirty mind
[Also blogged at Mac Virus, but may develop into a larger resource here, given the scope of the issue. We’ll see.] Official commentary from Apple: About speculative execution vulnerabilities in ARM-based and Intel CPUs and from Google:&… Continue reading Meltdown/Spectre resources
[23rd December 2017] Monica Chin’s article for Mashable – Here’s how to guard your Mac against ransomware – isn’t the general guide to self-protection that you might think from the title. It’s actually about a s… Continue reading Ransomware attacks via iCloud
[23rd December 2017] Monica Chin’s article for Mashable – Here’s how to guard your Mac against ransomware – isn’t the general guide to self-protection that you might think from the title. It’s actually about a s… Continue reading Ransomware attacks via iCloud
(1) Raj Samani, Chief Scientist at McAfee, describes an attempt to explore the motivations that drive ransomware gangs. Why ransomware? Let’s ask the bad guys Perhaps the most useful and interesting fact to emerge from these exchanges … Continue reading Ransomware updates
Paul Ducklin for Sophos: Watch out – fake support scams are alive and well this Christmas The first part of the article is a recap of old-school tech support scam cold-calling, but the rest describes what happened when someone clicked on … Continue reading Tech support scams: alive, kicking, and audio talking trash
I recently saw this article from Mark Stockley for Sophos entitled Ransom email scam from ‘hitman’ demands: pay up or die and assumed – as I suspect many people will – that it was some particularly horrible exam… Continue reading The Smiling Assassin (shaken not stirred)
The end of another year, and another look backwards and forwards at the threat landscape from ESET. Well, yes, most security vendors do something of the sort at this time of year, but this one is quite interesting. Tomáš Foltýn… Continue reading ESET Trends report, including my ransomware article
Lawrence Abrams for Bleeping Computer: Tech Support Scammers Invade Spotify Forums to Rank in Search Engines Extract: “Over the past few months, Tech Support scammers have been using the Spotify forums to inject their phone numbers into the … Continue reading Tech Support Scams: leveraging Spotify for Google and Bing SEO
Amit Malik for Netskope: Spider: A New Thread in the Ransomware Web Extract: “Netskope Threat Research labs has detected new ransomware named Spider propagating in a mid-scale campaign. This ongoing campaign, identified on the 10th December,… Continue reading ‘Spider’ ransomware – apparently targeting Bosnia & Herzegovina?