A hacker club called Chaos Computer Club (CCC) got in the possession of a tool that's used by the German authorities to track potential criminals. After a complex analysis, the spyware turned out to lack basic security... [read more >>] Smartphone security is once again threatened by hackers or in this case, Android app developers who want to make a profit. Five new tools have hit the internet, ready to be downloaded by any wannabe spy.Malware City's ... [read more >>] Vodafone's Spanish branch confirmed that as many as 3,000 mobile phones sold to its customers this month carried malware. The problem resides with a batch of infected microSD cards and not the devices themselves.Last w... [read more >>] Security researchers who reported last week that a Vodafone-issued HTC Magic phone came preloaded with malware are now in possession of a second infected device. The identical phone was acquired from the same mobile operato... [read more >>] The AMO (addons.mozilla.org) team has announced on its official blog that two experimental Firefox extensions were removed from the repository after they were found to be infected with malware. The add-ons had some 4,600 co... [read more >>] Unknown to the general public, Adobe Flash uses local cookies to store various types of user sensitive information. This was the conclusion of a study supported by TRUST (Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies)... [read more >>] One of the security industry's worst nightmares, a gigantic botnet of Chinese origin, might become a reality if the government in Beijing goes ahead with its plan to deploy the Green Dam Youth Escort censorship softwar... [read more >>] Malware researchers from security vendor Prevx have come across a new Mebroot version, which they claim to be, by far, the most sophisticated rootkit out in the wild today. The threat is completely memory-resident, does a v... [read more >>] Researchers from various security firms have discovered a new mobile threat that targets Symbian phones. The worm features a signed Symbian certificate and propagates by sending malicious links via SMS to all numbers in a p... [read more >>] Researchers from the anti-virus vendor BitDefender have come across an innovative piece of malware that hides itself and functions as a Firefox extension. The malicious add-on is a trojan that monitors user activity on nume... [read more >>] |
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