A new variant of the BankBot malware family is exclusively targeting Google Play in a bid to steal Android users' credit card details. Infection begins when an unsuspecting user downloads Jewels Star Classic, a mobile game created by a developer named "GameDevTony." Upon successful installation, the app's malicious functionality waits 20 minutes...

Over 10 billion transactions are performed every year at ATMs, and there are over 425,000 of these cash-dispensing machines throughout the U.S. for a total of 3,000,000 used globally. ATMs hold anywhere from $3,000 to upwards of $100,000 per machine, so they naturally become a prime target for thieves. Physically breaking open an ATM is not trivial,...

Have you seen the stories about the warrantless devices searches by various border agents? It seems that many folks have had their cell phones confiscated (sometimes forcibly) in order to protect the borders as people travel into the United States. Many of the folks subject to these searches are American citizens, some of whom work for the...

A threat actor known as APT33 is actively targeting organizations in the aerospace and energy sectors with spear phishing campaigns. Between mid-2016 and early 2017, the suspected Iranian digital espionage group attacked a U.S. organization in the aerospace sector, a Saudi Arabian conglomerate with aviation holdings, and a South Korean company known...

In September 2017, I created a list of 10 essential bug bounty programs for 2017. Readers with a keen eye for detail might have noticed that nearly half of the companies included in that catalog host their vulnerability research programs, otherwise known as vulnerability disclosure programs and responsible disclosure programs, through HackerOne. A...

UPDATED 19/9/17 to correct the fact that US Info Search never sold any data to Ngo Equifax made headlines on September 7, 2017, when it announced its discovery of a data breach earlier in the year. In the security incident, computer criminals leveraged a "U.S. website application vulnerability" to view some of the consumer credit reporting agency's...

Insider threat relates to malicious activity from an organization’s internal employees, contractors, or ex-employees who abused access to the company’s internal systems and applications to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability concerns to critical information systems or data with or without malicious intent. Insider threat...

Researchers have uncovered several zero-day flaws affecting billions of Bluetooth-enabled devices, including smartphones, TVs, laptops, watches, smart TVs and more. Dubbed “BlueBorne,” the attack vector enables malicious actors to leverage the short-range wireless protocol to take full control over targeted devices, access data and spread malware to...

Today’s VERT Alert addresses the Microsoft September 2017 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-742 on Wednesday, September 13th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2017-8759 This vulnerability, discovered by researchers at FireEye, has been exploited as part of the spread of the...

A backdoor known as Tizi installs spyware onto Android devices in an effort to steal data from their owners' social media profiles. The Google Play Protect security team first detected the digital threat in September 2017 when they found an app with rooting capabilities. Since then, they've come across other apps that exhibit the same malicious...

As we introduced in part 1 of this “word crimes” series, cybersecurity terminology is important. Cybersecurity, IT professionals and legal professionals routinely abuse the terms “policy” and “standard” as if these words were synonymous. In reality, these terms have quite different implications, and those differences should be kept in mind since the...

For as long as I can remember, members of the public have been losing money to scammers, as they've been tricked into sending their hard-earned cash via Western Union. Scammers prey on the vulnerable and gullible, tricking them into wiring money via Western Union with the promise that it will help with medical bills, pay for for a new internet...

With the rise in popularity of containers, development and DevOps paradigms are experiencing a massive shift while security admins are left struggling to figure out how to secure this new class of assets and the environments they reside in. While containers do increase the complexity of the ecosystem that security admins are responsible for securing...

Last time, I had fun talking with Victoria Walberg. She really understands cloud and IoT cybersecurity. This time, I got to speak to Beth Cornils. She has a pretty cool job that involves making IoT cars safe! Kim Crawley: Hi, Beth! Tell me about what you do. Beth Cornils: I am a product manager for an autonomous vehicle company. Prior to that, I was...

Unless you’ve been living in Slab City or off the grid for a while, you’ve probably heard this year’s omnipresent buzzword ‘blockchain.’ But perhaps you're a bit clueless as to what this newer technology entails. In a recent HSBC survey of 12,000 respondents in 11 countries, 80 percent of people could not explain how blockchain works. Don’t worry,...

Security researchers have discovered a new banking Trojan that is actively targeting U.S. financial institutions. Dubbed IcedID, the malware is believed to have emerged in the wild back in September 2017, when its first test campaigns were launched. According to IBM X-Force, IcedID was developed with “modular malicious code and modern capabilities”...

A cryptocurrency miner has earned its place on a list of the top 10 most wanted malware for the month of October 2017. The browser-mining service in question goes by the name "CoinHive." It's a piece of JavaScript that site owners can embed into their websites. Whenever a user visits their domain thereafter, CoinHive will activate and begin mining for...

What do Robert M. Lee, Eric Byres, Sean McBride, Dr. Oliver Kleineberg, and Sid Snitkin all have in common? If any of these names do not ring a bell, they’re each industrial cybersecurity experts in different realms. Along with Tripwire customers and other industry leaders, they will be sharing fast-paced perspectives and challenging you to think...