REMnux v6 - A Linux Toolkit for Reverse-Engineering and Analyzing Malware

REMnux is a free Linux toolkit for assisting malware analysts with reverse-engineering malicious software. It strives to make it easier for forensic investigators and incident responders to start using the variety of freely-available tools that can examine malware, yet might be difficult to locat...

2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR

The 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR did some mythbusting on two fronts: the estimated cost per record lost in a breach is much lower than reported elsewhere; and mobile malware is a no-go. The DBIR is Verizon’s annual data dump collected from breaches it has investigated, alon...

Ten Years Later, Cabir Worm's Place in History is Unique

It’s difficult to remember now–and seems quaint even if you can recall it–but there was a time in the not-so-distant past when industry analysts and security experts were worried about the coming mobile malware apocalypse. Self-replicating malware would soon be flooding our phones, deleting our...

iBanking Android Malware targeting Facebook Users with Web Injection techniques

iBanking is nothing but a mobile banking Trojan app which impersonates itself as a so-called 'Security App' for Android devices and distributed through HTML injection attacks on banking sites, in order to deceive its victims. Recently, its source code has been leaked online through an underground...

Symantec discovered Android Malware Toolkit named Dendroid

Android platform is becoming vulnerable day by day and hackers always try to manipulate android by applying novel techniques. In this regard, Symantec researchers have found a new android malware toolkit named “Dendroid”. Previously Symantec found an Android Remote admin tool named AndroRAT is...

DHS and FBI Warn About Android Security Threats

The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are warning police and fire departments as well as emergency medical service providers and other security personnel that out-of-date Android devices pose a serious security risk to those organizations. The warning came via an unclassified memo...

Activating mobile malware with Music and Light Sensors

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB presented the research that it is possible to trigger malware hidden in mobile devices using music, lighting, or vibration. In a research paper titled "Sensing-Enabled Channels for Hard-to-Detect Command and Control of Mobile Devices", th...

Activating mobile malware with Music and Light Sensors

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB presented the research that it is possible to trigger malware hidden in mobile devices using music, lighting, or vibration. In a research paper titled “Sensing-Enabled Channels for Hard-to-Detect Command and Control of Mobile Devices”, th...

Researchers Use Music, Light to Trigger Mobile Malware

Calling it a paradigm shift, university researchers were able to trigger mobile-device malware using a modest amount of music, lighting, magnetic fields or sound vibrations. “When you go to an arena or Starbucks, you don’t expect the music to have a hidden message, so this is a big paradigm shift...

Mobile Forensics: Santoku

Santoku is a platform for mobile forensics, mobile malware analysis and mobile application security assessment. The free Santoku Community Edition is a collaborative project to provide a pre-configured Linux environment with utilities, drivers and guides for these areas. Boot into Santoku and get...

Kaspersky Lab Malware Researcher Denis Maslennikov

Denis Maslennikov gave a talk on mobile malware, specifically the mobile components of FinFisher...

Dissecting a mobile malware

The capillary diffusion of mobile devices, the lack of security systems on these platforms and low level of awareness on principal cyber threats made them a privileged target for cybercrime. We have assisted in the recent year to an explosion of malware designed to hit principal mobile OSs, in a...

Dissecting a mobile malware

The capillary diffusion of mobile devices, the lack of security systems on these platforms and low level of awareness on principal cyber threats made them a privileged target for cybercrime. We have assisted in the recent year to an explosion of malware designed to hit principal mobile OSs, in a...

Report: Toll Fraud Emerges as Android's Number One Threat

Mobile malware continues to run rampant, thanks to a growing glut of toll fraud malware – apps that have been engineered to bill its victims through premium SMS services. The malware type eclipsed spyware this year as the largest application-based threat according to mobile security firm Lookout...

Mobile Malware Is Up – Way Up – in McAfee Q2 Threat Report

McAfee Labs researchers today announced a surge in malware samples this year – particularly threats that take advantage of mobile networks to launch drive-by downloads, control botnets using Twitter and spread ransomware that locks down infected machines and demand payments from users. The Santa...

Accountability – Not Code Quality- Makes iOS Safer Than Android

BOSTON—Accountability, not superior technology, has kept Apple’s iOS ecosystem free of viruses, even as the competing Android platform strains under the weight of repeated malicious code outbreaks, say researchers Dan Guido of the firm Trail of Bits and Michael Arpaia of iSEC Partners. The two...

Mobile malware on the rise, McAfee Q4 Threats Report

McAfee Q4 Threats Report, Mobile malware on the rise The number of new malware releases slowed during the final three months of 2011, but was higher than expected for the year. Computer and mobile security firm McAfee has warned "no organisation,platform or device" is immune from malware attacks ...

Phony Temple Run Game For Android Plays On Android-iOS App Gap

Scammers are using the super-popular Temple Run game for iOS as bait to lure Android users into installing a phony version of the game on their phones. The incident comes amid reports of an explosion in traffic to mobile Web pages and application stores. Researchers at Trend Micro wrote on Monday...

HITB2011KUL - Mobile Malware Analysis

Document Title: =============== HITB2011KUL - Mobile Malware Analysis References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/424.wmv View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVAuZ7jf7Sk Release Date: ============= 2012-02-05 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

HITB2011KUL - Mobile Malware Analysis

Document Title: =============== HITB2011KUL - Mobile Malware Analysis References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/424.wmv View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVAuZ7jf7Sk Release Date: ============= 2012-02-05 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...