Collaborate Disseminate
Due to the recent surge in cryptocurrency prices, not only hackers but also legitimate website administrators are increasingly using JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miners to monetize by levying the CPU power of your PC to mine Bitcoin or other cryptoc… Continue reading This New Android Malware Can Physically Damage Your Phone
Even after so many efforts by Google for making its Play Store away from malware, shady apps somehow managed to fool its anti-malware protections and infect people with malicious software.
A team of researchers from several security firms has uncovere… Continue reading BankBot Returns On Play Store – A Never Ending Android Malware Story
Google removed a rogue version of the WhatsApp Messenger application from Google Play that had been installed by more than 1 million people. A subsequent search by users and researchers revealed that it was one of many similar fake apps hosted on the a… Continue reading Fake WhatsApp on Google Play Shows How Easy Users Can Be Tricked
Cybercriminals are known to take advantage of everything that’s popular among people in order to spread malware, and Google’s official Play Store has always proved no less than an excellent place for hackers to get their job done.
Yesterday some users… Continue reading Fake WhatsApp On Google Play Store Downloaded By Over 1 Million Android Users
Hyatt Hotels Corporation is warning customers that hackers gained access to payment card information at 41 hotels managed by the company in 11 countries. This is the second credit card breach suffered by the company in the past two years. The new incid… Continue reading Hyatt Hotels hit with credit card breach in 11 Countries
Much-maligned BLU phones have been a privacy and spyware nightmare. Threatpost shares the story of one victim who experienced firsthand a relentless wave of unwanted programs, spyware and frustration. Continue reading Down the Rabbit Hole with a BLU Phone Infection
Nearly a year after the disclosure of the Dirty COW vulnerability that affected the Linux kernel, cybercriminals have started exploiting the vulnerability against Android users, researchers have warned.
Publicly disclosed last year in October, Dirty COW was present in a section of the Linux kernel—a part of virtually every Linux distribution, including Red Hat, Debian, and Ubuntu—for years
Continue reading First Android Malware Found Exploiting Dirty COW Linux Flaw to Gain Root Privileges
Even after so many efforts by Google, malicious apps somehow managed to fool its Play Store’s anti-malware protections and infect people with malicious software.
The same happened once again when at least 50 apps managed to make its way onto Google Play Store and were successfully downloaded as many as 4.2 million times—one of the biggest malware outbreaks.
Security firm Check Point on
Continue reading Yet Another Android Malware Infects Over 4.2 Million Google Play Store Users
Do you believe that just because you have downloaded an app from the official app store, you’re safe from malware?
Think twice before believing it.
A team of security researchers from several security firms have uncovered a new, widespread botnet tha… Continue reading WireX DDoS Botnet: An Army of Thousands of Hacked Android SmartPhones
A half dozen technology and security companies — some of them competitors — issued the exact same press release today. This unusual level of cross-industry collaboration caps a successful effort to dismantle ‘WireX,’ an extraordinary new crime machine comprising tens of thousands of hacked Android mobile devices that was used this month to launch a series of massive cyber attacks.
Experts involved in the takedown warn that WireX marks the emergence of a new class of attack tools that are more challenging to defend against and thus require broader industry cooperation to defeat. Continue reading Tech Firms Team Up to Take Down ‘WireX’ Android DDoS Botnet