WhatsApp scam extends into multiple countries and brands
IKEA, KFC, H&M and 7-Eleven are just a few popular brands that are being exploited by cybercriminals via WhatsApp. We take a closer look at this multi-country, multi-brand fraud.
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IKEA, KFC, H&M and 7-Eleven are just a few popular brands that are being exploited by cybercriminals via WhatsApp. We take a closer look at this multi-country, multi-brand fraud.
Support scams and fake alerts are still big business. We look at scammer psychology and a little parapsychology.
Linux.Wifatch’s creators call themselves The White Team.The Linux.Wifatch malware, also dubbed as the “vigilante malware” has been going around the Internet, infecting IoT devices, cleaning out malware infections, and boosting the devices’ security. While the initial Symantec report that exposed their activity had a positive tone and said that no instances of abuse were recorded […]
Short Bytes: China, in its effort to improve its security during the National Holiday, covered entire Beijing under video surveillance. In the wake of holidays, the Chinese media proudly announced that each and every corner of the capital has been brought under CCTV surveillance. Beijing Police, which was having some trouble keeping an eye on […]
The Subway system at the heart of Seoul, South Korea was hacked in 2014 and a local lawmaker claims that the culprit was North Korea. Ha Tae-keung, a lawmaker from the Saenuri Party revealed that the breach took place between March and August last year in which hackers were able to access 213 computers at […]
HDRoot is the work of the Winnti APT group. Hackers activating mainly in South-East Asia have developed a new bootkit trojan, which disguises as Microsoft’s built-in Net command to avoid detection. The threat was discovered by Russian-based Kaspersky Labs security vendor, which goes on to say that the bootkit seems to be an evolution from the […]
Ruskies sling malicious packet to trigger denial of service. Positive Technologies researchers Timur Yunusov and Kirill Nesterov have found since-patched remote execution and denial of service vulnerabilities in a popular Huawei 4G USB modem that can allow attackers to hijack connected computers. The Huawei E3272 USB modem sells from about US$120 on Amazon. Researchers say […]
Group used Angler Exploit kit to push ransomware on unsuspecting Internet users. Security researchers have disrupted an online criminal operation they estimated drew $30 million per year pushing ransomware on unsuspecting people browsing the Internet. The takedown was performed by investigators from Cisco Systems’ Talos security unit, which was researching the Angler Exploit kit. The hack-by-numbers […]
Hackers are targeting users with fake PayPal app update email which actually comes with an embedded link of an Android banking malware. Recently, an email circulation has been let loose by hackers. This email looks quite official in design and content, asking the recipient to update their Android PayPal app. If the users click on the […]
Short Bytes: The Android 6.0 Marshmallow update party has begun and we are here with the complete list of devices that are getting the update. Confirmed devices- as well as the rumored ones- are included on this list. Take a look. Google has recently unveiled the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update along with the brand new Nexus […]
For hackers, routers are an easy target, perhaps because they are seldom updated and virus-scanned and are also easily cracked. But shockingly, a report from Symantec claims that a new router virus may make devices safer. A bug that is dubbed ‘Linux.Wifatch’ is like a normal malware and also behaves like one: infecting vulnerable devices, […]
Former NSA spy Edward Snowden may have exposed the government’s surveillance program around the world, but it didn’t change the way security agencies spy on its citizens. A group of activists from Intelexit decided to protest against the National Security Agency office at the Dagger Complex (a U.S. military installation) in the south of Frankfurt, Germany by sending […]
A new malware identified as YiSpecter attacks iOS devices with and without jailbreak, researchers from Palo Alto Networks have revealed. ESET has detected this malware as a trojan with both variants iOS/YiSpecter.A and iOS/YiSpecter.B.
A group of pro-Palestinian hackers took over the official website of Radio Tel Aviv (TLV) on Sunday and left a deface page on the homepage showing anti-Israeli messages. A group of Palestinian-friendly hackers going with the handle of AnonCoders hacked and defaced the official website of Radio Tel Aviv. Hackers left a deface page along with […]
In August I visited the Chaos Communication Camp near Berlin. Once every four years this great and world’s greatest hacker festival is organized. I spoke with a couple of cool Danish hackers there and we talked about internet security and eventually about the security of Danish banks. Seemed like quite a lot of Danish bank […]
In an exclusive for We Live Security, Jean-Ian Boutin, a malware researcher at ESET, shares his thoughts on the past, present and future of banking trojans.
Malware that was active for over a year could have ‘accessed payment card information as it was being inputted,’ Trump Hotel Collection executives say. Presidential candidate and real-estate baron Donald Trump’s chain of high-end hotels “may have been the victim of a data security incident”, the company has informed customers. Donald Trump’s hotel chain reveals […]
Short Bytes: Canonical is organizing India’s first ever Ubuntu Hackathon in Bangalore between October 15-16, 2015. Know about different categories, great prizes and how to register. Ubuntu Linux is the world’s most popular free and open source operating system. Canonical, the company behind the OS, is the platinum sponsor of the upcoming Mobile Developer Summit 2015 […]
Google today patched the latest round of Stagefright vulnerabilities in Android, pushing them out as part of its latest over-the-air update to Nexus devices. Stagefright 2.0, as it’s come to be known, affected the Stagefright media playback engine in Android and one billion devices dating back to the earliest versions of the OS are thought […]
Short Bytes: In a recent interview, Edward Snowden has said that spy agencies have lots of tools that could be used to hack your entire smartphone with a single “exploit” text message. You are not safe. The security agencies spread all across the world have a wide range of tools that could be used to […]
Backdoor in Outlook Web Application operates inside target’s firewall. Researchers have uncovered advanced malware that can steal virtually all of a large organization’s e-mail passwords by infecting its Outlook Web Application (OWA) mail server over an extended period of time. Researchers from security firm Cybereason discovered the malicious OWA module after receiving a call from […]