Zeljka Zorz
The economy behind ransomware attacks
First spotted in Russia in 2005, ransomware attacks have since spread to other countries – mainly those of the Western world – by using geo-location to target …
Australian police disrupts sophisticated credit card fraud syndicate
A husband and wife were arrested today in Ryde, New South Wales, following what was dubbed as one of the most most serious identity crime investigations undertaken by the …
Samsung fixes Galaxy S3 bug, researchers offer fix for other phones
Given the amount of information we all keep on our smartphones, it’s no wonder that the recently demonstrated Samsung Galaxy S3 remote data-wipe hack has ruffled quite a …
Fake Visa/Mastercard “Security incident” notifications doing rounds
Bogus emails purportedly sent by the Visa/Mastercard “Identity Theft Department” are targeting the cards’ users by trying to convince them that a …
“Watering hole” sites crucial to new cyber espionage campaign
RSA’s newly dubbed FirstWatch research team has recently presented their findings on a “water holing” campaign that they first spotted back in July. The …
Bogus Facebook photo notification carries malware
A new Facebook-themed spam campaign is targeting the social network’s users, trying to trick them into opening the attached file: “The attached ZIP file has the …
Malicious phpMyAdmin served from SourceForge mirror
A malicious version of the open source Web-based MySQL database administration tool phpMyAdmin has been discovered on one of the official mirror sites of SourceForge, the …
Researcher shows Samsung Galaxy S3 remote data-wipe hack
At the recently held ekoparty Security conference in Buenos Aires security researcher Ravi Borgaonkar has demonstrated a simple attack that could lead to a remote wiping of …
Critical Java flaw affects nearly one billion users
Researchers from Polish firm Security Explorations keep digging into Java and discovering flaws, the latest of which has been unearthed just before Oracle’s annual …
Researchers bypass NFC access control with smartphone
A security flaw in most Mifare NFC contactless cards can easily be misused by hackers to modify the contents of the cards and get free rides on at least two U.S. transit …
Bogus Second Life survey leads to card info theft
Users of popular online virtual world Second Life are in danger of getting their credit card details stolen via phishing pages that supposedly offer 2500 Linden dollars …
How to recognize rogue online pharmacies
As the prices of pharmaceuticals keep rising, so does the popularity of online pharmacies. Crooks noticed the high earning potential of rogue online pharmacies from the very …
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