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Android SMS Trojans evolve, go after bank and payment system accounts

“Once upon a time cyber crooks used SMS Trojans to earn themselves money by subscribing users to unwanted premium mobile services. Today, the situation has changed, and …

Number of XcodeGhost-infected iOS apps rises

“As the list of apps infected with the XcodeGhost malware keeps expanding, Apple, Amazon and Baidu are doing their best to purge their online properties of affected …

AVG will sell user browsing and search info to advertisers

Starting on October 15, when its new privacy policy comes into effect, Czech AV maker AVG will start selling user activity information to online advertisers.“We do not, …

Symantec fires employees who issued rogue Google certificates

Symantec has fired several employees that have been involved in the issuing of rogue certificates for some Google domains.“We learned on Wednesday that a small number of …

Millions of iOS users endangered by Trojanized apps from the App Store

“Unknown malware pushers have managed to trick Apple into offering for download from the company’s official App Store a considerable number of malicious apps …

D-Link accidentally leaks code-signing certs in its firmware

Malware peddlers don’t always have to steal or buy (from sellers on underground forums) legitimate and valid code-signing certificates to sign their malware with – …

Critical Bugzilla flaw allows access to unpatched vulnerability information

Mozilla has patched a critical vulnerability (CVE-2015-4499) in its popular open source bug-tracking Bugzilla software – a vulnerability that can be exploited by …

Malicious SYNful Cisco router implant found on more devices around the globe

“After FireEye researchers published on Tuesday their discovery of 14 Cisco routers in India, Mexico, Philippines and Ukraine that have been implanted with a modified, …

iOS 9 partially fixes critical, easily exploitable AirDrop bug

Apple has released iOS 9. Along with many new and improved security and privacy features, fixes for a bucketload of security vulnerabilities have been included in this latest …

Behind the scenes at BruCON, a European hacker conference

Setting up a local conference seems to be a popular way for infosec pros that haven’t got the time or means to travel to bring the people they want to meet and the …

New POS Trojan created by mixing code from older malware

“A newly discovered POS Trojan is a perfect example of how easy it is for malware makers to come up with new malware – they can simply recycle code used in older …

Microsoft details how Device Guard fights malware in Windows 10

As Windows 10 was being prepared for release, Microsoft presented many new security features (and we’ve written about some) to be included in the new version of the …

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