Smartphone malware infections increased by 96% over the year to April 2016; smartphones account for 78% of all mobile infections; and the number of infected mobile devices peaked at 1.06% in April. These details come from the latest Nokia Threat Intelligence Report (PDF) for the first half of 2016, and demonstrate a rapidly increasing malware threat to mobile devices.
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43 Million Last.fm Accounts Stolen in 2012 Breach
The account details of well over 43 million Last.fm users were stolen when the online music service was hacked back in 2012.
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Betabot Starts Delivering Cerber Ransomware
Betabot, a piece of malware that has been around for years, recently started to deliver ransomware to compromised computers, Invincea reveals.
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IoT Botnet Targets Olympics in 540Gbps DDoS Attacks
The 2016 Rio Olympics weren’t all about the games, but also about overcoming some of the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, Arbor Networks researchers reveal.
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Cisco Fixes Severe Flaws in WebEx, Small Business Products
Cisco informed customers on Wednesday that it has released software and firmware updates for some of its products in an effort to address several vulnerabilities rated as having critical, high and medium severity.
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Running in Front of the Open Source Parade
There is simply no denying that the adoption of open source components in software development is pervasive and will continue to expand. Black Duck, an open source security firm, noted in their “State of Open Source Security in Commercial Applications, 2016” report that 67 percent of the applications tested had some form of open source component.
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RIG Developers Testing New Exploits, C&C Patterns
The developers of the RIG exploit kit appear to be testing new infection methods and a different type of URL pattern for command and control (C&C) communications that could help the threat evade detection.
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University Finds Flaws in Report on St. Jude Medical Device Security
Researchers from the University of Michigan have analyzed the MedSec report describing serious vulnerabilities in St. Jude Medical products and determined that the security firm may have reached inaccurate conclusions.
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Malicious Office Docs Install Proxies to Spy on HTTPS Traffic
Malicious Microsoft Office documents have long been used to deliver malware onto the computers of unsuspecting users, but it appears that attackers are now abusing them in a new manner: to install rogue proxies.
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Kimpton Hotels Confirms Point-of-Sale Systems Were Hacked
After launching an investigation in July after unauthorized charges were identified on payment cards u
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