Nearly 5 million Android devices infected with malware already from the factory
Not just economic models, as discovered in a similar case by Dr. Web, but also of big brands. So far RottenSys is used as an adware. But it can become a botnet.
EUROPOL and EU hunt Islamic State and al-Qaeda propaganda on WordPress
The European Union Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) with Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Slovenia and UK discovered over 900 cyber terrorism contents.
Cyberwarfare, NATO is working to define what would be a trigger for Article 5
The issue is urgent for the Alliance for many reasons. From the UK-Russia crisis, that could fall in a cyber war, to the continuous cyber attacks by terrorism and Rogue Nations to Ally members.
Italy, the first national study group on cyber security has been established
The new Cybersecurity team is coordinated by the Italian Institute of Health (ISS), and is tasked with studying specific strategies to improve the defense of health facilities against various types of cyber-attacks.
Fake News spreads faster that real news on Twitter, a study of MIT finds
Three researchers published a document on Science in which they explain that the cause are the humans. The bots accelerated the spread of true and false news at the same rate on the social media.
DDoS cyber-attacks can also be used for good deeds
This kind of cyber aggression can provide good results when used against criminals and terrorists. It is particularly effective in targeting smartphones and other mobile devices.
EU, the European Commission bets on the FinTech
Europe aims to become a global hub for financial services that exploit technology-enabled innovation and proposes new rules for the crowdfunding platforms.
A cheap smartphone could turn up to be much more expensive than a costly one
Dr. Web discovers that on many cheap mobile Android phones, cybercrime has managed to hack in a Triad Trojan. Directly from the factory. And it’s possible that they are not the only ones.
A hacker transformed a theft of cybercurrency in a kind of a “loan”
Last year someone stole worth 43,000 Ethereum to CoinDash, an Israeli venture. From September 2017 he’s sending them back for no apparent reason. Fear, regret or refund?
Di5s3nSi0N group is changing the game in the cyber-war against the Islamic State
Muslim hackers have sworn revenge for the destruction of the al-Nuri Mosque and said they are going to do the same with Daesh’s “Fasiq” videos.