Recently, Facebook announced its acquisition of Instagram— a popular photo-sharing smartphone app, which also released an Android version almost a week ago. It was reported that Facebook paid approximately $1 billion (£629m) in cash and stock for the said takeover.
Cybercriminals, soon enough, started to take advantage of Instagram's popularity. We discovered a spoofed webpage containing a rogue version of Instagram. The said webpage mimics Instagram's legitimate download page. The red squares indicate clickable links that lead to the download:
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Following the so-called “Year of Data Breaches,” the first quarter of 2012 veered away from attacks that led to data loss and, instead, focused on mobility. The mobile threat incidents we’ve seen in the first quarter remained true to one of 2012 predictions—Android-based smartphones will continue to be a likely target for cybercrime. Trend Micro, in fact, identified approximately 5,000 new malicious Android apps in just the first three months of the year most likely due to the increase of ...
Concerns about privacy on the Internet have always been out there, but news events of late seem to be bringing this problem more and more into the public eye.
Earlier this month, Google began implementing its “new” privacy policy – despite opposition from many parties, including French and European Union regulators. The new privacy policy allows Google to consolidate what it knows about users across all of its services, something it had never done before. According to Google, this makes for ...
The Android Market was just recently renamed to Google Play and yet there are already cybercriminals taking advantage of this. We've spotted newly created domains that imitate the Google Play site and contain malicious apps.
The malicious URL http://{BLOCKED}ay-google.ru displays a fake Russian Google Play site. When translated to English, the text reads: “ Download Google Play for Android Google Play is formerly known as the android market but now a vast and influential old android market combined with a store of books ...
As I promised in my previous post, here are some of the important keynotes, talks, and panel discussions at RSA 2012:
The opening keynote by RSA chairman, Art Coviello, entitled "Sustaining Trust in a Hyperconnected World," highlighted the immensity and increasing rate of targeted attacks, including the one that befell RSA last year. He also mentioned that "risk" is a function of three components—how vulnerable you are to attacks, how likely you are to be targeted, and how much is at ...
