Last week, there was ample coverage of the SK Comms data breach, which involved one of the more popular service providers in South Korea that offers social networking and instant-messaging (IM) as well as mobile phone services. The breach affected the user accounts of the NATE portal and Cyworld, both SK Comms offerings. Within the same…
Read MoreMore and more spying tools are being sold in app stores, specifically those catering to Android users. One of those that has gotten some attention from the media goes beyond the typical routines of known spying tools, which include text message forwarding and GPS information transfer. In addition to the said routines, this particular spying…
Read MoreThe first half of 2011 was marred by a spate of data breaches, vulnerability exploit attacks, the proliferation of more and more Android malware, improved social networking scams, and notable developments in traditional system infections. As our security experts predicted, enterprises suffered from a slew of data breaches of never-before-seen magnitude. This spelled disaster not only for attack targets…
Read MoreAs our colleague Jorge Mieres over at Kaspersky recently noted, cybercriminals appear to be using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host quite a large volume of SpyEye Trojans and exploit kits. In fact, another colleague in my group, Ranieri Romera, recently collected approximately 22Mb of malware hosted on AWS for analysis and detection. My advice is…
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