Finland Faces Blizzard of Flubot-Spreading Text Messages

The Flubot banking trojan is blanketing Finland, spreading via Android phones that are sending millions of malicious text messages. On Friday, the National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-FI at the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency posted a “severe” alert about the malware blizzard, which it...

Apple iOS inkPresentation UI fraud vulnerability

Apple iOS is an operating system developed by Apple for its mobile devices.LinkPresentation is one of the presentation display components. A security vulnerability exists in the handling of URLs in the linkPresentation component in Apple iOS versions prior to 11.3.1. The vulnerability can be...

'SMS of Death' Attacks Can Crash the Simplest of Phones

Malicious text messages can crash many types of mobile phones, including devices by Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and LG, according to a presentation given at the Chaos Communication Congress hacking conference this week in Berlin. Nicknamed ‘SMS of Death,’ the attacks were outlined by Collin...