Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Anyone remember the good old days when we get computer viruses the old fashioned way? It goes like this. Someone inserts an infected floppy disk, probably a virus-infected operating system or program disk in a drive, the virus loads into memory…
Hackers steal £20 million from UK bank accounts using malware
£20($30) million stolen from British bank accounts in malware attack Law enforcement agencies with the help of several cybersecurity firms took control of a botnet network of machines that distributed malicious software known as “Bugat,” “Cridex” or “Dridex. The Dridex malware was used by cyber criminals to steal some £20…
85 legitimate iPhone apps that were infected with malware in the big App Store hack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Apple fans have been criticizing Android for years, fighting back against “walled garden” claims by suggesting that Android’s open nature makes it far more susceptible to hacks and malware. This is indeed often the case, but if you thinkApple’s closed iOS…
These are the 85 iOS apps affected by the XcodeGhost malware
Over the weekend, we told you about the malicious version of XcodeGhost that spread malware to 39 App Store apps. A rogue version of Xcode was downloaded from Baidu by iOS/OX S developers that should have picked up the latest version of it directly from Apple. Now, the number of…
AT&T SUES EX-EMPLOYEES OVER PHONE UNLOCKING & HACKING MALWARE
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans AT&T has brought a lawsuit against three of its former employees and an Anaheim-based IT company, alleging that the group conspired to install malware on company computers that would illicitly generate unlock codes for customer phones. According to the suit, Anaheim’s…
Malware discovered on 39 apps in the Apple App Store
A malware that infects iOS apps through a malicious version of Apple’s Xcode, has resulted in the discovery of at least 39 infected apps in the Apple App Store. Among the apps affected is the extremely popular Chinese messaging app WeChat, and ride-sharing app Didi Chuxing. The latter is the…
Latvian Malware maker pleads guilty for stealing millions from online bank accounts
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Latvian hacker, Deniss Calovskis, pleaded guilty in US court for co-writing the Gozi virus. The said virus enabled criminals to steal millions of dollars from online bank accounts by causing massive worldwide computer infection. He admitted to committing the computer intrusion…
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 will battle malware with cognitive computing, courtesy of Smart Protect
Qualcomm is certainly working hard on its Snapdragon 820 chipset, a chip that will have to wash away all the bad surrounding the Snapdragon 810. We already seem to know a lot about the SD820: Kryo architecture, allowing for a maximum clock of up to 3GHz per core, 14nm manufacturing…
The Cyber Abuse of Hacking and Malware
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cyber abuse, hacking, and malware: The overall context of cyber psychology. In our “information age,” technology has improved the lives of many people in significant ways, while connecting the human family as never before on a global scale. Although the possibilities…
Hacking With Pictures; New Stegosploit Tool Hides Malware Inside Internet Images For Instant Drive-by Pwning
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Go online for five minutes. Visit a few webpages. How many pictures do you see? With the media rich nature of the web, chances are your answer is in the hundreds. It is in this space the future of malicious cyber…
