Author : Arun Hegde , Security Architect @arun25 Here is a quick summary about my experience at RSA Conference 2014 – San Francisco last month Highlights of RSA 2014 : Some of the highlights at this year at RSA was cloud security, mobile security ( specially for enterprise), more companies providing SIEM solutions and lot of new […]
Jamie Sanchez, a security researcher discovered a vulnerability within Snapchat mobile app which can crash your iphone by Denial of Service attack. The vulnerability can enable a hacker to launch DoS attacks which can potentially crash a users phone or requires that the user perform a hard reset. He further says with a video that […]
GameOver Zeus is a notorious malware family that makes fraudulent transactions from your bank accounts from the infected host. A new variant of GameOver Zeus uses encryption to hide itself while propagation which makes it almost impossible to be detected by modern day antivirus. The malware encrypts itself so well that it can pass the […]
Researchers at Fireye have discovered six variants of Android malware family( Android.HeHe) that disguises itself as a security app, and intercepts the incoming texts and calls of victims. As per Fireeye “The app disguises itself as “android security” , attempting to provide the users what is advertised as an OS Update. It contacts the […]
Maladvertisers targeted L.A. Times sending its thousands of users to Blackhole exploit kit and other malicious sites. Security researcher’s from Blue Coat have discovered a set of malicious domains sending traffic to the searcherstypediscksruns dot com/.net/.org family of Blackhole sites, including adhidclick.com, ortclick.com and several other affiliated sites. These sites were registered During December 2012 […] DHL fake phishing email has been around for a while. A new set of emails has been going around since last week. Arun from Mobilesecurityrearch received a email from DHL which almost […] Yahoo was one of the hottest business couple of years back. They had a great frontend, paid services for extra storage and tons of small business tools. As business grows they lost focus on their core business. Overt the time, spam increased exponentially, yahoo messenger was screaming of spam links all the time, spammers used […] Bogus alert from Microsoft Digital Crime Unit carries malware. Microsoft Digital Crime Unit helps fight online crimes partnering with other organisations, the division of Microsoft that was responsible to take down few of botnets and investigate of various online legal issues. As per Sophos the spammed out email looks like the screenshot below. The email with the old […] Webroot, warns users about the possible phishing attack for Amazon kindle users. As per webroot, Cyber criminals are attempting to phish Kindle owners into thinking that they have received a receipt from an E-book purchase from Amazon.com. In real, when a users click on any of the links found in the malicious emails, they are […] 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 […]