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. […]
McAfee identified a unusual behavior of a Android app that was set to go on for July 4th. The app. As per Netsec , “The app in question is Jay Z Magna Carta, which has ben recently made available on Google Play, and allows users of certain Samsung devices to listen to the rapper’s new […] Shadowserver is a non-profit organization like abuse.ch, informs the associated network owners about the infections reported by my sinkhole, in addition to infections reported by their own sinkholes and sinkholes run by other operators. Every Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), Internet Service Provider (ISP) and network owner can get a feed from Shadowserver for their […] 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 […] Hackmiami had its first ever Hackers conference in Miami, Florida. Hackmiami started by a small group of passionate folks since 2008 has grown itself to a full fledged hacking community in Florida with the intention of educating the information security community in staying ahead of the bad guys. The Hackmiami 2013 conference had a variety […] Its time for apple’s turn to take a hit. Researcher Elie Bursztein demonstrated how apple store communicated with plan text. After a decade, Apple finally turns HTTPS on for the App Store, fixing a lot of vulnerabilities. It was almost unbelievable that Apple opened their doors for years. As per ELIE.IM : “By abusing the lack of encryption (HTTPS) […] Vulnerability Lab researchers have discovered a second version of a vulnerability that lets a hacker slip past a lock screen to access a user’s contact list, voicemails and many more. In reality this is a flaw but can only be exploited provided the device is with hacker’s hands. This cannot work from remote execution […] 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 […] The Android Malware which threatens to take control of contact lists, internet connections, and dialing and text functions, and can be used to collect personal information and engage in SMS spamming. Once it’s turned your phone into a “zombie,” it sends text messages that create financial gains for advertisers. In many cases, the threat will overrun […] Apple users have had the luxury of lower number of infections so far compared to other platforms. Dr Web, a Russian antivirus company discovers a fake installer trojan.SMSSend. Trojan.SMSSend.3666 is the Mac variant within the Trojan.SMSSend family of fake installers. These kind of Trojans have been infecting Windows users for years. These appear to be legitimate […]