Google Sticks a Thumb in Android Security Dike
- Jul
- 09
Lumbering like the old-school technology firms it sometimes derides, Google has finally issued a patch for a master key vulnerability in Android that Bluebox called to its attention back in February. “Is Google eating their own dog food?” asked Randy Abrams, a research director at NSS Labs. The vulnerability lets attackers modify Android apps into Trojan apps without breaking their APK signature.
NBC site redirecting to Exploit kit
- Feb
- 24
We became aware that the NBC[.]com website is redirecting to malicious websites that contains exploit kit. At this point it seems like most of the pages contains an iframe that is redirecting to the first stage of the RedKit exploit kit. Some twitter users are already poiting out some of these bad pages. Some of […]
read moreThe Real Hunt for Red October
- Jan
- 21
A Russian security company, Kaspersky Labs, detected and identified a new spyware dubbed, ‘Rocra’ meaning ‘Red October’. The Red October (Rocra) campaign, was designed to steal—including encrypted files and from mobile devices—and has successfully infiltrated government, diplomatic and scientific agencies. Rocra is a new kind of virus, that goes undetected for long periods of time […]
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