Sophos, the antivirus and encryption products company recently released the ‘Dirty Dozen’ Spampionship tables for the Q4 of 2013. According to Sophos, United states has topped the charts with a 14.5% spam relaying volume. Although it is no matter to celebrate, these results are not completely surprising given that United States is one of the […]
Can you imagine your home television becoming a zombie ? As scary as it sounds , the reality is in front of us. Most of the current day televisions, refrigerators, surveillance devices and temperature control devices( Internet of Things- IoT) are all part of a home network, which in turn connects to the internet. None […]
WhatsApp is one of the widely used messaging platform in the recent days having both mobile and desktop app versions. Its been normal to see spam voicemail messages from spammers which goes directly to spam folder. However some do escape the spam folder very easily and ends up in users hands. The fate of the […] Its yet another day for twitter lost the battle for spammers. Mobile Security research saw a increased number of spam emails sent from twitter accounts to anyone from their contact list. When one of researcher found spam email in his personal box, he was surprised. Even I received a spam email from one our researchers. […] Phpbb is a free online forum available and thousands love using it in different ways for exchange of ideas, discussions or build a business. However the spammers are equally busy running auto bots which can create users , fill up captcha and post their own spam topic. In a recent research at mobilesecurityresearch, we […] Every other day either I am tagged on Facebook with Southwest free tickets or I keep hearing my friends who signed up for this spam. This has been going on for a while and Facebook has not been able to do anything with their security/fraud team. This version says something along the lines of “TWO FREE Southwest Airline […]
One of Checkpoint’s customer’s employee downloaded a malicious app called “EnergyRescue” which consisted of zero day mobile ransomeware (Doxware)from Google Play store. The ransomeware dubbed “Charger” and has appeared to be downloaded by millions of Android users. The ransomeware infected app gets access to contacts and SMS messages from the user’s device requesting admin permissions appears to be […]
From the first time you see the privacy policy update screen on WhatsApp ( both iPhone & Android phones) , you have 30 days to click through and agree or not agree to Facebook, using your Whatsapp data to suggest friends and serve ads hampering your experience. We highly recommended to follow the below steps to help privacy invasion by […]
Its been Tmobile been unlucky last year by a massive breach and now by an internal employee who sold more than 1.5 millionCzech Republic customer data. As per the local media MF DNES, it is unknown how much of name, e-mail address, account number and various other information the marketing database contained. T-Mobile Czech Republic […]
St. Louise-based Scottrade Inc. has sent out an email to its clients informing them of a recent cyber -attack that affected their systems. The company has revealed that they were alerted of the breach by FVI agents who have been investigating it since it occurred sometime between late 2013 and early 2014. It was further […]