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Public institutions targeted with shape changing Qbot malware

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Apr

2016

A new strain of Qbot, malicious software that steals user credentials and creates backdoors on targeted devices, has infected over 54,000 PCs in thousands of organisations across the world, BAE System experts have found. Following an attack on a public sector organization in early 2016 that affected more than 500 computers and impacted the operation […]

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Security Flaw in Truecaller Exposes Millions of Android Users

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Mar

2016

Popular phone call management application Truecaller was discovered to pack a remotely exploitable security flaw that potentially impacts 100 million Android users, researchers at Cheetah Mobile Security Research Lab warn. The vulnerability provides attackers with the possibility to steal sensitive information pertaining to Truecaller users, which could open the door to further attacks, the researchers explain. With over […]

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Defunct iPhone App Exposes Details of 198,000 Users

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Mar

2016

A researcher discovered an unprotected database storing the details of 198,000 users who had signed up for a now-defunct iOS application. A misconfigured MongoDB database associated with the iPhone app Kinotopic was discovered by Chris Vickery, a researcher who currently works at Kromtech, the company behind MacKeeper. Kinotopic, which allowed users to create and share […]

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