Researchers Get Trolled by Chinese, Pre-Malwartized Xiaomi Mi4 was Duplicate

Recently a mobile-security firm Bluebox claimed that the brand new Xiaomi Mi4 LTE comes pre-installed with spyware/adware and a "forked" vulnerable version of Android operating system on top of it, however, the company denies the claim. Xiaomi, which is also known as Apple of China, provides an...

Android Malware Can Spy On You Even When Your Mobile Is Off

Security researchers have unearthed a new Android Trojan that tricks victims into believing they have switched their device off while it continues "spying" on the users' activities in the background. So, next time be very sure while you turn off your Android smartphones. The new Android malware...

$1.75 Million in Bitcoin Stolen from Chinese BTER Bitcoin Exchange

The most popular Chinese Bitcoin exchange BTER announced that it has been hacked on Valentine’s Day and lost more than £1.1 Million-worth $1.75 Million; one BTC is about $270 of the digital currency. The Bitcoin Exchange hasn't revealed more details about suspects behind the breach or how the col...

Chinese Hackers Compromised Forbes.com Using IE, Flash Zero Days

A Chinese APT group was able to chain together two zero day vulnerabilities, one against Adobe’s Flash Player and one against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9, to compromise a popular news site late last year. The group’s aim was to gain access to computers at several U.S. defense and financial...

Anthem Data Breach — 6 Things You Need To Know

The Nation’s second largest Health insurer company, Anthem, alerted its customers on Wednesday that hackers had stolen the personal information of over 80 Millions of its customers, making it the largest data breach and double the number of payment cards affected by Target data breach occurred in...

New Strain of Banking Trojan Targets Android, Steals SMS

A relatively new Android Trojan that specializes in stealing banking information by intercepting SMS messages has been making the rounds. Researchers at zScaler spotted the as yet unnamed Trojan circulating as 888.apk. Like many types of malware that came before it, at least for the moment, the...

Built-In Backdoor Found in Popular Chinese Android Smartphones

Chinese smartphone manufacturers have been criticized many times for suspected backdoors in its products, the popular Chinese smartphone brands, Xiaomi and Star N9500 smartphones are the top examples. Now, the China's third-largest mobile and world's sixth-largest phone manufacturer 'Coolpad', ha...

Alibaba Marketplace Vulnerability Puts Millions Of Shoppers at Risk

Alibaba Group has patched a major security vulnerability in one of its e-commerce portals that exposed account details of tens of millions of Merchants and shoppers to cyber criminals. An Israeli application security firm, AppSec Labs, found a Cross site scripting XSS vulnerability in AliExpress,...

'DeathRing' Chinese Malware Found Pre-Installed On Several Smartphones

Malware authors are trying hard to create malicious software with more innovative ways to infect victims. A new mobile Trojan horse infection has been discovered by security researchers that comes pre-loaded onto low-cost Chinese-made Android smartphones popular in Asia and Africa. The trojan,...

Suspected Wirelurker iOS Malware Creators Arrested in China

It’s been almost two weeks since the WireLurker malware existence was revealed for the first time, and Chinese authorities have arrested three suspects who are allegedly the authors of the Mac- and iOS-based malware that may have infected as many as hundreds of thousands of Apple users. The Beiji...

Chinese Attackers Hack NOAA's Systems

Systems belonging to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA were recently compromised, purportedly by Chinese hackers. The NOAA confirmed that four of the scientific agency’s websites were targeted and compromised in an “internet-sourced attack” earlier this fall, in a statement...

USPS Breach Hits Customers, Employees

The United States Postal Service is continuing its investigation around a cyber attack at the agency that managed to compromise the information of both employees and customers earlier this year. The USPS announced in a statement on Monday that it recently fell victim to a “cyber intrusion inciden...

Chinese Telecom Routes Russian Domestic Internet Traffic through China

Russian Internet traffic, including the domestic one, has continuously been re-routed outside the country due to routing errors by China Telecom, which could result in compromising the security of Russian communications. Internet monitoring service Dyn reported Thursday in a blog post that the...

Windows Version of WireLurker Out of Commission Too

Given that most iPhone users update their Apple devices on Windows machines, it wasn’t really a shock to learn about the discovery of a Windows version of the WireLurker Trojan. Last night, researcher Jaime Blasco of AlienVault tweeted he had discovered the malware, which as it turns out, pre-dat...

Chinese Government Executes MITM Attack against iCloud

Apple iCloud users in China are not safe from the hackers — believed to be working for Chinese government — who are trying to wiretap Apple customers in the country. Great Fire, a reputed non-profit organization that monitors Internet censorship in China, claimed that the Chinese authorities have...

PayPal Service Manager Script Insertion

Document Title: =============== PayPal Inc Bug Bounty 71 PPM - Persistent Filter Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=870 PayPal Security UID: Roc83bl Release Date: ============= 2014-09-24 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

Chinese Penetrate TRANSCOM Amid Lack of Data Sharing

Hackers allegedly affiliated with the Chinese government compromised the computer networks of the United States Transportation Command, the group tasked with providing air, land and sea transportation services to the Department of Defense, according to the findings of a Senate Armed Services...

Chinese Hackers Hacked Into U.S. Defense Contractors 20 Times In Just One Year

Chinese hackers associated with the Chinese government have successfully infiltrated the computer systems of U.S. defense contractors working with the government agency responsible for the transportation of military troops and goods across the globe, a Senate investigators have found. The Senate...

Chinese Groups Found Targeting Govt, Military Systems

Two Chinese cyber espionage campaigns are working in tandem in hopes of sniffing out trade secrets from surrounding nations. Researchers from FireEye outlined information about the two attack groups yesterday in advance of a more comprehensive report. One of the groups, Moafree, operates out of t...

China Develops Facial Recognition Payment System with Near-Perfect Accuracy

In an intent to move one step forward from others, China is planning to launch a facial recognition payment application with near-perfect accuracy that enables users to authorize their online transactions just by showing a picture of themselves. Chinese researchers from the Chongqing-based resear...