Airbnb: Call back number not verified

The issue is with the "Confirm via call functionality" While adding mobile number,the application does not verify the number that is being called back. A malicious user can change the number to any premium rate numbers which charge particular amount from the caller. It was further noticed that...

More Apps Pulled From Android Market Over Hidden SMS Functionality

There has been another round of malicious apps discovered in the official Android Market, with this wave containing hidden functionality to send SMS messages to premium-rate numbers. The apps, which Google has pulled from the Market already, are counterfeit versions of popular games, including...

QR Codes Found Sending Users to Site Containing Android Trojan

QR codes have been showing up everywhere in the last few months, from magazine ads to the sides of buses to, oddly, billboards. And now they’ve shown up on the list of ways that attackers are delivering malware to victims, with the emergence of a new Android-based Trojan that is hiding on malicio...

Hackers Push Sipvicious VoIP Tools In Malicious Attacks

Researchers at NSS Labs claim that they’ve spotted attacks that use Sipvicious, a common auditing tool for Voice over IP VoIP networks as part of malicious attacks aimed at taking control of vulnerable VoIP servers. The attacks are apparently aimed at taking control of VoIP servers to place...

Report: Romanian Authorities Bust VoIP Hacking Group

Authorities in Romania have disrupted a large hacking ring accused of stealing Voice over IP VoIP data from hacked servers and using it to place bogus calls to premium rate numbers. Agence France Presse reported on Tuesday that 42 people were arrested in the sting, breaking up a network that was...

Updated Android Trojan Pushed in SEO Attacks

Mobile attacks may have reached a tipping point, as researchers observe search engine optimization used to spread a malicious program for mobile devices running the Android operating system. One month after researchers first identified a Trojan horse program that targets mobile devices running...

Porn dialers for smartphones

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab our corporate sponsor are warning about a new potentially unwanted program viruslist.com targeting Symbian-based smart phones. The program, called iPornPlayer screenshot at right, promises sexually-explicit content on handsets but there’s a hefty price attach...