Attackers can force mobile phones to send premium-rate SMS messages or prevent them from receiving messages for long periods of time by leveraging a logic flaw… View full post on text spoofing – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Android Trojan charges users for spam text messages
A new Android Trojan program that poses as an SMS management application is sending text messages to predefined premium rate numbers in Europe and Canada, according to security researchers from Kaspersky Lab. Credit-stealing Trojans that send SMS messages or make calls to premium rate numbers were first designed for Nokia’s…
Pakistan’s telcos to filter text messages for objectionable words
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has instructed telecommunications operators in the country to filter SMS (Short Message Service) messages that include words that it considers objectionable, drawing criticism from civil rights groups in the country. “The filters infringe several basic human and fundamental rights enshrined in our constitution, and we think…
WARNING: Twitter Phishing Scam Spreads by Direct Messages (Mashable)
Mashable – A nefarious link that hacks Twitter accounts is being circulated via direct messages. The DM says, “There is a rumor/blog going around about you [LINK] might want to read it.” There may be slightly different versions of the link circulating, but if you click on it, all of…
SpyEye online banking Trojan stealing customer text messages
Researchers from browser security vendor Trusteer have identified a new variant of the SpyEye financial Trojan that tricks online banking users into changing the phone numbers associated with their accounts. “The Trusteer research team recently uncovered a stealth new attack carried out by the SpyEye Trojan that circumvents mobile SMS…
Scientists hide messages using E. Coli bacteria
Scientists have come up with a novel way to encode biological messages on physical objects using genetically-engineered bacteria that react to light or chemicals to reveal hidden codes. Using a technology enterprisingly dubbed ‘Steganography of Printer Arrays of Microbes’ (SPAM), the team at Tufts University in Massachusetts have published a…
Spammers Hijack Email Marketer Accounts to Send Malicious Messages
Spammers are finding it more lucrative to compromise email marketing firms and exploit their resources to send out malicious messages. View full post on email spoofing – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
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