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Swiss users inundated with malware-laden spam

Swiss users are being heavily targeted by a number of spam campaigns delivering the Tiny Banker (TinBa or Busy) e-banking Trojan. Starting with Tuesday, the spammy emails seem …

Critical BlackPhone bug allows attackers to spy on users

BlackPhone, a mobile phone aimed at users who want to keep their communications secure from mass surveillance attempts, is affected by a critical security vulnerability that …

New OS X Yosemite version fixes critical security issues, including Thunderstrike

Apple has released the latest version of OS X Yosemite (v10.10.2) and the first security update (2015-001) for this year, and among the problems fixed is one affecting the CPU …

Hijacking drones with malware

A recent incident at the White House showed that small aerial vehicles (drones) present a specific security problem. While in this particular case the actual danger turned out …

Evidence shows Regin spy malware is used by Five Eyes intelligence

Kaspersky Lab researchers who have recently analyzed a copy of the malicious QWERTY module have discovered that the malware is identical in functionality to a Regin malware …

Why Google won’t be updating pre-KitKat WebKit anymore

Two weeks ago, Rapid 7 researchers discovered that Google will no longer be providing security patches for WebView used in pre-KitKat (v4.4) Android versions, meaning that …

APT gear: Custom Windows task hiding tool

Cyber attackers, especially persistent ones, use a variety of tools to break into target systems, assure their continuing presence in them and hide their actions, and …

What makes phishing emails so successful?

According to the results of a study performed by researchers from the University at Buffalo, “information-rich” emails that alter the recipients’ cognitive …

VPN services blocked by China’s Great Firewall

A number of popular VPN services are the latest target of China’s Great Firewall, including Astrill, StrongVPN and Golden Frog’s VyprVPN. Virtual Private Networks …

Police ransomware scam drives UK teen to suicide

For most people, a ransomware infection is not a huge tragedy: they pay the bogus fine (or not), and ultimately get their computer back either because the criminals unlock it …

Adobe updates Flash Player again, plugs 0-day exploited by Angler

Adobe made good on its promise to make available by this week a fix for the recently discovered critical zero-day Flash Player vulnerability (CVE-2015-0311) preyed on by the …

Google discloses three OS X 0-days

In the past few days, Google has released information about and proof-of-concept exploit code for three separate zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Apple’s OS X …

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