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Researcher despairs of critical SIM flaws being fixed before attacks happen

Two months have passed since researcher Karsten Nohl announced that he has found and managed to leverage critical flaws in the encryption technology used by some SIM cards, …

A short overview of Android banking malware

As more and more people use their mobile phones to do their online banking, money transfers, and so on, cyber crooks wielding banking malware are increasingly turning to …

IE 0-day attack reports push ISC to raise official threat level

Over the weekend, FireEye researchers have managed to shed some light on the in-the-wild attacks leveraging the latest discovered Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability …

RSA advises customers to stop using NSA-influenced encryption algorithm

In the wake of the disclosure that the NSA has influenced NIST to adopt an encryption standard that includes one random bit generator with a weakness known only to the …

Clever email campaign delivers deadly ransomware to orgs

A new type of ransomware that obviously concentrates on targeting organizations instead of home users has been spotted by Emsisoft researchers. Dubbed CryptoLocker, the …

Belgacom was breached by Britain’s GCHQ

Earlier this week, the primarily state owned Belgacom – the largest telecom in Belgium, with customers such as the European Commission, Council and Parliament – …

Websites of energy sector companies compromised in watering hole attack

The websites of nearly a dozen energy sector companies have been compromised to serve as so-called “watering holes”, where visitors would be served with malware or …

Researchers discover ties between TDSS and ZeroAccess rootkit families

A lot has been said and written about the long-lasting TDSS (or TDL) and the considerably newer ZeroAccess (or Sirefef) rootkits, and the similarities between the two have …

New wave of Shylock Trojan targets bank customers

Cybercrooks wielding the Caphaw (better known as Shylock) banking Trojan are once again targeting users of financial institutions around the world, warns Zscaler. The initial …

Beware of 419 scam emails delivered via CNN’s “Email This” feature

Email spammers often try to take advantage of current news and to impersonate legitimate news sites (usually CNN) in order to bypass spam filters and convince recipients to …

Rootkit freezes computers’ hard disk to respawn itself

Researchers from Vietnamese security firm Bkav have recently spotted and analyzed a new piece of malware that uses an unexpected self-protection mechanism: it …

Chinese hackers for hire tied to Bit9 and Aurora attacks

The existence, the modus operandi and details of successful campaigns of another Chinese hacking group have been revealed by Symantec researchers, who have managed to tie to …

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