The Hacker News - The Head of knowledge delivery and business development for RSA's FraudAction Group, Daniel Cohen warned users about the new threat via a company blog on Thursday, that explains everything about the malware app, called iBanking. iBanking, a new mobile banking Trojan app which impersonates itself as an Android 'Security App', in order to deceive its victims, may intimidate a large number of users as now that its source code has been...
Read moreDetailsPC Mag - A month after Neiman Marcus revealed a hack of customer credit and debit cards, Bloomberg Businessweek said the attackers set off the retailer's security system about 60,000 times during their strike. Between July and October 2013, hackers quietly collected card data via "sophisticated, self-concealing" malware installed on Neiman's system, the company said in January. But the exploit took about eight months, Bloomberg said; the hackers were forced to reload their software daily,...
Read moreDetailsBBC news - The chief executive of Bitcoin exchange MtGox, Mark Karpeles, has quit the board of the Bitcoin Foundation, which oversees and develops Bitcoin software. It comes shortly after MtGox halted transfers of the digital currency to external addresses after it spotted what it called "unusual activity".
Read moreDetailsWe live security - A large majority of routers used in small offices are plagued with security vulnerabilities – with up to 80% of small office/home office models having critical security weaknesses, according to a survey by Tripwire. Tripwire’s research also found that many IT professionals working remotely do not use basic security controls. The report comes in the wake of the discovery of a mysterious worm dubbed ‘Moon’ which is infecting models of Linksys...
Read moreDetailsTrend Labs - Threats today are designed to appeal to local audiences everywhere: two separate threats we’ve recently encountered show how ransomware is targeted towards users in specific countries; in these cases users in Turkey and Hungary were the targets. First, we came across a notification email sent to Turkish users that talks about a billing update. Recipients are prompted to download and view the updated version of the invoice. Upon clicking on the links...
Read moreDetailsBBC - Cyber thieves who target Android phones are getting more sophisticated, suggests a report. Malware makers are tailoring their creations to make the most of conditions in each territory, said the report by mobile security firm Lookout.
Read moreDetailsNetwork World - The vulnerabilities could allow attackers to take control of affected devices or cause them to become unresponsive
Read moreDetailsThe Hacker News - The SaaS Security firm vendor Adallom, detected a targeted malware attack campaign against a Salesforce.com customer, which began as an attack on an employee's home computer. Adallom found that the new variant had web crawling capabilities that were used to grab sensitive business data from that customer's CRM instance.
Read moreDetailsSecurity Watch - As PCMag.com reported earlier, Facebook plans to acquire WhatsApp, a mobile messaging service with about 450 million users, for $12 billion in Facebook stock, $4 billion in cash, and $3 billion in stock options. Now, consider that Facebook doesn't have the greatest track record regardinguser privacy, and WhatsApp had its own share of security stumbles over the past year. So while the Facebook-WhatsApp deal is a cool $19 billion for the company's founders and employees, it means...
Read moreDetailsDark Reading - International cyber policy and enforcement, and ownership over the Internet are thorny topics that will be tackled at the 2014 RSA Conference next week
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