A new Android Trojan codenamed FlyTrap has hit at least 140 countries since March 2021 and has spread to over 10,000 victims through social media hijacking, third-party app stores, and sideloaded applications. Zimperium’s zLabs mobile threat research teams recently found several previously undetected applications using Zimperium’s z9 malware engine and on-device detection. Following their forensic…
A new criminal carding marketplace promoted itself by leaking data for one million credit cards that have been stolen between 2018 and 2019. Carding can be defined as the trafficking and use of stolen credit cards. Credit cards usually get stolen through point-of-sale malware, magecart attacks on websites, and by using information-stealing trojans. The credit cards are sold…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management , Patch Management Pondurance: Ransomware Group Used Backdoors That Persist Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • August 10, 2021 Some patched on-premises Microsoft Exchange email servers are still proving to be vulnerable. The Conti ransomware group is now leveraging backdoors that persist, cybersecurity consulting firm Pondurance…
Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Updated Security Approach Designed to Mitigate Ransomware, Nation-State Attack Risks Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • August 10, 2021 Ron Ross, NIST Fellow and one of the co-authors of an updated guide to cyber resiliency As ransomware and nation-state attacks have…
The cybersecurity team of zLabs Zimperium has recently detected several applications that have stolen the passwords of thousands of Facebook users. Not only this, but the Zlab security researchers have also checked this attack, and they claimed that the malware used in this attack was dubbed as “FlyTrap.” According to the report, FlyTrap has been…
The country could become an ideal place for international terrorism and violent extremism should the state fracture, the UK Chief of the Defence Staff Gen Sir Nick Carter has said. It was important to see what happened in the longer term, Gen Carter told BBC World News. “I think that we need to be really…
John Deere, Researchers Spar Over Impact of Vulnerabilities Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • August 9, 2021 Flaws in John Deere systems could have allowed an attacker to remotely take over equipment, such as this row crop tractor. (Photo: John Deere) Numerous vulnerabilities uncovered in tractor manufacturer John Deere’s systems underscore the cyber risks that…
Vintage petrol-powered Bentleys and Rolls-Royce cars are being re-engineered to fully electric vehicles by a company based at Silverstone, the home of UK motorsport. In a world-first, Lunaz adapts the cars in a process which takes about 26 weeks and starts at £350,000 ($478,000, 405,000 euros). BBC Click’s Jen Copestake finds out more. See more…
Western governments will face difficult questions about whether to support Afghanistan if the Taliban seize control in a way that is illegitimate, the UK Chief of Defence Staff Gen Sir Nick Carter has said. But he told BBC World News that if the Taliban did take control of the country he did not believe they…
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