Last week, we revealed a new
Facebook celebrity death hoax, shed light on the case of a fake NatWest Bank
Twitter account sneaking into customer conversations, and released an online security
survival guide for college students.
Our reverse engineers also pushed out several technical posts on a couple of
ransomware, such as
Venus Locker and
Chimera.
Senior threat researcher
Jérôme Segura caught
a campaign that delivers two exploit kits—
RIG EK and
Sundown, to be exact—but have the same payload. The use of two EKs, according to our expert, is already uncommon within the
malvertising sphere.
Segura also revealed that
Neutrino continues to count on the weaknesses in
Flash player for the successful deliver of its payload. The latest campaign he found also sported
a new trick.
Notable news stories and security related happenings:
- Android Bug Fear In 900 Million Phones. “Serious security flaws that could give attackers complete access to a phone’s data have been found in software used on tens of millions of Android devices. The bugs were uncovered by Checkpoint researchers looking at software running on chipsets made by US firm Qualcomm. Qualcomm processors are found in about 900 million Android phones, the company said.” (Source: The BBC)
