The extremely popular video game Fortnite is coming to Android sometime this summer, and the fanbase is going wild. Not surprisingly, mobile malware developers are taking advantage. Already, there are several videos on YouTube with links claiming to be versions of Fortnite for Android, despite the fact the game has yet to be released on this platform. Swati Khandelwal of The Hacker News highlights … [Read more...]
June 20, 2018
June 20, 2018
June 15, 2018
UK law enforcement: an uphill struggle to fight hackers
About 16 years ago in the UK, I walked into a local police station to report a computer crime, because walking into local police stations is how they did things back then. There may well also have been penny farthing bicycles, real pea souper fogs, Mary Poppins, and Jack the Ripper, though I could well be wrong on those last two. I was greeted at the incident report desk by a bemused officer on … [Read more...]
June 13, 2018
VPNFilter malware still making waves
Last month, a piece of malware called VPNFilter caused chaos for owners of MikroTik, Lynksys, TP-Link, and Netgear equipment. Roughly 500,000 devices worldwide fell victim, with the unwanted parasite able to listen to traffic, steal credentials, damage devices, and more. Until patches started to roll out, the options weren’t great; as one of our researchers, Jovi Umawing told SCMagazine … [Read more...]
June 12, 2018
Exploit kits: Spring 2018 review
Since our last report on exploit kits, there have been some new developments with the wider adoption of the February Flash zero-day, as well as the inclusion of a new exploit for Internet Explorer. We have not seen that many changes in the drive-by landscape for a long time, although these are the results of improvements closely tied to malspam campaigns and exploits embedded within Microsoft … [Read more...]
June 6, 2018
June 5, 2018
June 4, 2018
Mobile Menace Monday: A race to hidden ads
Who doesn’t love a good motorcycle racing game, right? How about one easily available on Google Play, a “safe” place for all your Android app desires? How about a bike racing game that sticks with you so much, you can’t easily uninstall it? And it displays hidden ads? Wait, what!? That’s right! In the slideshow below, a game titled Motorcycle Race—Bike Race (package name: com.bikeme.racersm) has … [Read more...]
June 1, 2018
Blocks for Flash and others coming to Office 365
If you’re a user of Microsoft Office products such as Word and Excel, you’re probably aware that they’ve been used as inroads for malware for a long, long time. But what about malware attacks without Macros? Sure. Macro malware for Macs? That, too. Malicious documents and spying tools? Danger, Will Robinson. We have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that monthly … [Read more...]
May 31, 2018
