Tag: Malware

January 6, 2019

With the cyber threats faced by mobile phone users uprising at an alarming rate, app permissions became a crucial step in securing our devices. Kaspersky Lab detected almost 6 million malicious installation packages and more than 94.000 mobile banking Trojans. Mobile […]

December 12, 2018

An Android Trojan virus has been discovered that has the ability to steal money from PayPal. According to We Live Security, the malware, which is hiding as a battery optimization tool distributed via third-party app stores, “combines the capabilities of […]

November 6, 2017

We’re surrounded by hoaxes, fake news, spam, malware and…fake apps. A fake Android app which was disguised as an update to the popular WhatsApp messaging service was downloaded more than a million times from the Google Play Store. Named “Update […]

May 26, 2017

Most malware requires some form of active user interaction in order to infect a device — a click on a link in a phishing email, or the installation of software from an unverified source. But a new type of attack, […]

April 7, 2017

It was a surprise to the Mac community when Apple hired security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski last month, and many wondered what might happen to his app Little Flocker. Now TechCrunch reports that the security utility for the Mac will have […]

April 7, 2017

Do you want to play a game? That’s the question posed by a novel piece of ransomware that challenges victims to achieve a high score in a video game instead of demanding cash to unlock files. Yeah. “Minamitsu ‘The Captain’ Murasa […]

November 28, 2016

San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation System, known locally as Muni, was hacked on Friday, with hackers leaving the message ‘You Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted,’ on Muni computer screens around the city on Saturday, according to the San Francisco Examiner. The message […]

October 7, 2016

Security researcher and former NSA staffer Patrick Wardle is this afternoon demonstrating a way for Mac malware to tap into live feeds from the built-in webcam and microphone. His presentation is being delivered at the Virus Bulletin conference in Denver later today. Although any […]

June 16, 2016

In late 2014 the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s), Association of National Advertisers (ANA), and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) created the New York-based Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) for the purpose of “eliminating fraudulent digital advertising traffic, combating malware, fighting […]

June 9, 2016

With no warning, one of the world’s largest criminal botnets—a massive collection of computers used to launch attacks—has disappeared. Researchers have reported huge drops in traffic for two of the most popular pieces of malware which rely on it. “We […]

February 17, 2016

A new Android malware dubbed “Mazar,” which is being spread by SMS, is capable of wiping all of your personal data, making calls, and reading your text messages. Detected by a Danish security firm, the malware is thought to have […]

October 5, 2015

Cyber security researchers have identified malware that targets users of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system in China and Taiwan, subjecting them to nuisances like unwanted, full-screen advertisements. The news comes just two weeks after researchers said that in a first-of-its-kind […]

September 18, 2015

Microsoft may have just a single-digit slice of the mobile market, but there’s one segment of mobile that it’s winning: Malware infections delivered via mobile networks. According to a Wednesday report from Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive Security Lab, in June Windows devices […]

September 1, 2015

Microsoft looks to be gearing up to deliver a new distributed security service running on Azure that will help isolate and destroy malware. Codenamed “Project Sonar,” the service “dynamically analyzes millions of potential exploit & malware samples in VMs (virtual […]

March 9, 2015

A few days ago, mobile data security company Bluebox got their hands on a Xiaomi Mi 4 handset to run a few tests on it. See, handsets built and sold in China rarely run a Google-certified version of the Android […]

February 24, 2015

A little-known software called Superfish was catapulted into the spotlight last week when it became clear that the adware was responsible for a dangerous security hole in some Lenovo computers. Superfish is able to exploit SSL certificates to break into […]