NK hackers target Mac users with trojan cryptocurrency app
Fake app and fake company, but legitimate digital certificates.
Fake app and fake company, but legitimate digital certificates.
IBM details a well-established banking trojan's move to cryptocurrency exchanges.
Security researchers and law enforcement can now use Shodan to search for malware servers that are used to control infected computers.
The Australian government has had a mixed bag of outcomes this year around cybersecurity, with many lauding its leadership in the area
David Braue | 29 Aug | Read more
As the Rio Olympics neared the opening ceremony, cybercriminals were also lacing up their running shoes with the establishment of many malicious domains and servers in Brazil. Real-world crime was also a risk, with warnings that stealing payment-card data is easy and an inexpensive bit of electronics able to hack hotel room locks and point-of-sale systems.
David Braue | 08 Aug | Read more
Twitter has suspended at least two accounts that were spreading links to spyware aimed at people who sympathise with terrorists.
Google has removed dozens of Android apps in Google Play posing as battery management tools that may have leaked millions of users’ email addresses to criminals.
A new kind of Android malware can steal online banking credentials and hold a device's files hostage for ransom, delivering a particularly nasty one-two punch.
Jeremy Kirk | 19 Feb | Read more
A widespread piece of ransomware that poses as a porn app for Android has been updated to conform with Google’s Material Design with the aim of boosting payments from victims.
Days after the Hacking Team’s hack leaked several Flash zero-day flaws, the same flaws were used in attacks on several media and news organisations in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Google is having difficulties keeping a wave of trojan 'porn clickers' out of the Google Play app store.
Carberp, a banking trojan that recently hit over 150,000 Australian PCs, is taking a second bite at Australia through spam email loaded with malware.
Cybercriminals behind the TorrenLocker malware may have earned as much as $585,000 over several months from 39,000 PC infections worldwide, of which over 9,000 were from Australia.
The USB interface may have become standard for powering all kinds of devices, but anecdotal warnings are emerging about devices that arrive prepackaged with embedded malware that infects target systems as soon as they are plugged into the computer.
David Braue | 09 Dec | Read more
Apple's popular image of being immune from malware has fired up hacker interest in the platform in recent times
John P. Mello | 19 Sep | Read more