Malicious mobile emulator farms are robbing US and EU banks
IBM Trusteer researchers have uncovered an extensive fraud operation unlike anything anyone has ever seen before. In simpler terms, it is the nightmare of automated fraud. A network of mobile device emulators was used to steal millions of dollars from bank accounts in just a few days.
The scale ...
Criminals more successfully spoof banks and financial services
Bitdefender published a new report that says the stay-at-home model of working, online shopping, and online banking are perfect hunting grounds for criminals.
Recently, they have started spoofing banking emails more, hoping to defraud customers. More than a third of all incoming emails related t...
Another Bluetooth flaw has been discovered in the BLE software stack
Researchers at Purdue University revealed details about a new vulnerability in the Bluetooth wireless standard that could potentially expose billions of devices to attackers. The new vulnerability has been named Bluetooth Low Energy Spoofing Attack or BLESA for short.
The vulnerability is a ris...
Russia accuses of spoofing GPS and other navigation satellite systems
Russia is accused of blocking, hijacking and disrupting signals from global navigation satellite systems. The Center for Advanced Defense (C4ADS) claims this in a recently published report.
C4ADS is a not-for-profit organization, dedicated to providing data-driven analysis and evidence-based reporti...
News website BBC spotted by bitcoin-scammers
Security researchers have discovered that apparently legitimate BBC News websites are being misused by scammers to mince bitcoin. The scam was discovered in the first week of January, reports The Next Web.
Scammers created an email that seemed to be legitimate, containing a button to display the mes...