Researchers have now discovered two new and different
strains of point of sale (POS) malware including one that has gone largely
undetected for the past five years.
Researchers have described Cherry Picker, a set of PoS
malware which in one form or another has been targeting businesses that sell food
and beverage since 2011.…
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Researchers from Palo Alto Networks, has confirmed that Taomike, a Chinese mobile advertising company, has been distributing a malicious Software Development Kit (SDK) that allows Android developers for implementing in-app purchases (IAPs) for Android apps.
The SDK, which can be downloaded for free via Taomike, steals all messages on infected phones and sends them to the Taomike controlled server.…
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If you are Android user and you have an app Talking Tom 3, Smart Touch, Privacy Lock then you should be vary.
FirmEye, a Security and cyber-attack firm tracked down a new mobile malware that is threat in more than 20 countries worldwide.
Kemoge, an Android-affecting malware which you can install via ads, poses a security threat.…
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ATM malwares are no myth to the cyber world and this time is no different than the earlier. a team of security researchers from PointProof have unraveled the veil off a new malware, named GreenDispenser, that gives the capability to hackers to attack compromised ATMs and drain all of it’s cash.…
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Researchers at Check Point Threat Prevention have detected a malicious application and said to have affected some one million people, which was published twice in the Google Play Store. The malware was packaged within an Android game called “Brain Test”.
According to the researchers, the malware was reported to Google Play twice.…
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Security experts from at ESET have discovered a malware that targets Pokerstars’ users and Full Tilt Poker and that lets competitors (crooks) cheat their way to winning games by leaking their information about their cards to their competitors.
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It affects people who have accounts on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker.…
Security researchers at ESET have discovered the first malware that could allow an attacker to reset the PIN of anyone’s phone to permanently lock them out of their own device. “This ransomware also uses a nasty trick to obtain and preserve Device Administrator privileges so as to prevent uninstallation.…
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Bitdefender Security Researcher, Liviu Arsene has recently revealed that a malware, identified as Android.Trojan.MKero.A has found its way into the highly legitimate apps in Android powered Google Play Store by successfully evading the Google Bouncer’s vetting algorithms. This can cause a lot of trouble for the vendors who provide paid premium services of their products as the malware can now make the services available for free.…
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Researcher from Palo Alto Networks, a computer security firm, have found out that hackers, who have targeting jail-broken iPhones, have raided more than 225,000 Apple accounts, using them for app buying sprees or to hold phones for ransom.
The jailbreak is a tool in iPhones to use additional iThing tweaks available through the alternative Cydia store, and for some to pirate software by installing ripped-off apps for free.…
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Security researchers from Doctor Web, Russian anti-virus software developer, have detected another new Android Trojan, which is said to be distributed among users from china to spy on their victims.
Previously, the researchers had found an Android Trojan, which spreads as a security certificate that tricks users into thinking it must be installed onto users device.…
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Researchers from Malwarebytes Unpacked, a security firm, have detected a malvertising, which derived from “malicious advertising” uses online advertising to spread malware and it involves malware-laden advertisements into legitimate online advertising websites, in the PlentyOfFish, a Vancouver-based online dating service which makes money from advertising.…
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Many people are becoming victims of an encryption virus dubbed Cryptolocker which hijacks computer files and demands a ransom, if anyone wants to restore them.
A report in ABC confirms that now, Australians are paying thousands of dollars to overseas hackers to rid their computers of Cryptolocker, which comes in a number of versions and the latest capitalizing on the release of Windows 10.…
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Fake virus alert is the technique used by the Cyber criminals to trick users into thinking their system have a virus then tell them to install or buy fake applications, sometimes redirect them to spam websites.
A New fake virus alert spotted by Malware Bytes team says users that their device infected by a dangerous virus created by Chinese Hackers.…