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...

New 5G Flaw Exposes Priority Networks to Location Tracking and Other Attacks

New research into 5G architecture has uncovered a security flaw in its network slicing and virtualized network functions that could be exploited to allow data access and denial of service attacks between different network slices on a mobile operator's 5G network. AdaptiveMobile shared its finding...

Skygofree: Following in the footsteps of HackingTeam

At the beginning of October 2017, we discovered new Android spyware with several features previously unseen in the wild. In the course of further research, we found a number of related samples that point to a long-term development process. We believe the initial versions of this malware were...

3 Mobile UK Hacked – 6 Million Customers' Private Data at risk

Three, one of UK's biggest mobile operators, has become the latest victim of a massive data breach that reportedly left the personal information and contact details of 6 Million of its customers exposed. The company admitted the data breach late Thursday, saying that computer hackers gained acces...

Rightel Cross Site Scripting

================================================================================ Cross Site Scripting on The Rightel ================================================================================ Site: http://www.rightel.ir/ Date: 09/12/2015 Author: Ehsan Hosseini Contact: [email protected]...

Mobile Phone Number Harvester Fuels SMS Spam

The latest version of a phone number harvesting tool offers its users the ability to trawl the public web and collect mobile phone numbers indexed on sites that ask visitors for them, according to a Webroot report. The numbers are later used as targets for SMS spam campaigns peddling whatever get...

Я.Инцидент: Почему я читал ваши СМС?

События прошедшего лета, связанные с утечками конфиденциальных данных в поисковые системы, прямо или косвенно коснулись каждого, кто следит за новостями, любезно предоставляемыми СМИ. Под «системный нож» попали поисковые роботы и персональные данные гражданина РФ. Копнем немного глубже и выясним,...

SMS Blockers: The New Face of Ransomware

LIMASSOL, CYPRUS–The scareware and rogue anti-virus epidemic that has been earning attackers millions of dollars for the last few years has spawned a devious new offspring: SMS blockers. This class of malware, which demands that users send SMS text messages to premium numbers, has recently taken...