Viking Horde Malware Co-Ops Android Devices for Ad Fraud

The latest Android malware campaign to wend its way through Google’s Play marketplace can leverage victims’ phones for ad fraud, carry out DDoS attacks, send spam, and more, researchers warn. Dubbed Viking Horde, the campaign ropes Android devices into a botnet without their owners being any the...

FreedomPop Account Hijacking Flaws Remain Unpatched

It took close to two months, but free wireless and mobile provider FreedomPop has acknowledged reports of a serious vulnerability in its service. U.K.-based researcher Paul Moore told Threatpost that FreedomPop, which has been operating in the U.K. since last September, finally responded to a bug...

Phony Google Update Spreads Android Malware

Android users are being warned of a phony Google update that is pushing malware onto devices. The attackers behind this scheme are domain squatting URLs that are similar to ones used by Google for legitimate updates, hoping to snare less-than-vigilant users. Researchers at Zscaler said yesterday ...

FBI Most Wanted — Three 'Syrian Electronic Army' Hackers Charged for Cyber Crime

Syrian Electronic Army SEA Hackers have made their place on the FBI's Most Wanted List. The US Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI are willing to pay $100,000 reward for any information that leads to the arrest of the heads of the infamous hacking group Syrian...

American Express Notifies of Data Breach

American Express has begun notifying cardholders that their data may have been compromised in a third-party breach. A notification letter filed on March 10 with California’s attorney general indicates that AmEx account numbers, user names and other information including expiration dates may have...

IRS Email Tax Scams Up 400 Percent

A 400 percent surge in tax-related phishing and malware incidents is making this tax season the most treacherous yet for taxpayers. According to an Internal Revenue Service bulletin, this year’s attacks include the tried-and-true email phishing, but also newer forms of attacks that include bogus...

GM Bot Banking Malware Source Code Leak

Source code for the potent Android malware GM Bot has been leaked to underground forums, according to IBM security experts. The impact, IBM X-Force threat intelligence says, will be an uptick in GM Bot variants and the number of attacks targeting financial applications on Android-based devices...

GM Bot (Android Malware) Source Code Leaked Online

The source code of a recently discovered Android banking Trojan that has the capability to gain administrator access on your smartphone and completely erase your phone's storage has been LEAKED online. The banking Trojan family is known by several names; Security researchers from FireEye dubbed i...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID20958: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on February 5, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 43433 First Published: 2016 February 5 15:52 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID20958 may contain the following files: Name |...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID20774: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on January 30, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 43342 First Published: 2016 February 1 15:33 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID20774 may contain the following files: Name |...

On the Linux Zero Day, Twitter Users Looking for Answers, and Bot Fraud

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news, including the Linux zero day–how it was patched in Android, Twitter users sent nation state messages that are still looking for answers, and bot fraud. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapJanuary222016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Bot Fraud to Cost Advertisers $7 Billion in 2016

Mitigating fraud has long been an uphill battle for the online advertising world and numbers released Tuesday indicate it’s been a pricey one. The industry is poised to lose a combined $7.2 billion worldwide this year thanks to bogus ad fraud bots, according to a study carried out this past summe...

26-Year-Old Hacker Sentenced to Record 334 Years in Prison

A 26-year-old hacker has been sentenced to 334 years in prison for identity theft as well as mass bank fraud in Turkey, or in simple words, he has been sentenced to life in prison. Named Onur Kopçak, the hacker was arrested in 2013 for operating a phishing website that impersonated bank site,...

IRS Releases Sixth Tax Security Tip

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has released the sixth in a series of tips intended to help the public protect personal and financial data online and at home. A new tip will be available each Monday through the start of the tax season in January. This tip describes the types of fraud alerts...

19-Year-Old Teen Steals $150,000 by Hacking into Airline's Website

What do you do to earn up to $150,000? Somebody just hacks into airlines and sells fake tickets. That's exactly what a 19-year-old teenager did and made approximately 1.1 Million Yuan £110,000 or $150,000 by hacking into the official website of an airline and using the stolen booking information ...

Microsoft Revoves Trust for eDellroot Certficates

In the wake of last week’s eDellroot fiasco, Microsoft announced Monday that it revoked support for the self-signed, trusted root certificates that were found on some Dell computers. In a security advisory published on Monday, the company acknowledged that in order to prevent fraud, it removed...

Gmail Android APP vulnerability allows anyone to send fraudulent mail-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Security researcher Yan Zhu in the Gmail Android APP and found an interesting vulnerability that allows anyone to send an e-mail, leaving the e-mail looks to be other people sent, which is likely for phishers have opened a door for malicious activity. Gmail Android APP the presence of mail frau...

Hackers Can Abuse SAP Apps Connected to SCADA

Much in the same way the Target hackers used a HVAC management system to catapult onto the corporate network, attackers focused on oil and gas and other critical industries may be finding similar openings via enterprise applications such as SAP. Researchers from ERPScan, during last week’s Black...

Tinba Variant Spotted Targeting Russian, Japanese Banks

Cybercriminals behind the Tinba banking Trojan have been homing in on some of the larger banks in Russia and Japan, experts claim. According to researchers with Dell SecureWorks, who looked at an instance of the malware last month, configuration files in one variant are targeting one of the...

Fourth, a 16-year-old Hacker, Arrested over TalkTalk Hack

Police have arrested a fourth person, a 16-year-old boy, from London in connection with the high-profile hack of British telecoms giant TalkTalk. The investigating officers from the Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit MPCCU arrested the teenager at his home in Norwich on suspicion of Computer...