iPhone and iPad users have reported receiving pop-up notifications telling them that their software has crashed and that they must dial a support helpline to fix it. Scammers have targeted Safari, telling users in the US to ring the helpline and pay to fix it.
Users in the UK have also reported the issue, with one saying they had been asked for money to fix the crash. When browsing Safari, users receive a notification saying: "Warning!! iOS Crash Report!!. Due to a third party application in your device, iOS is crashed. Contact Support for Immediate Fix." Apple has directed users to a support page that explains how to fix it.
Read moreApple is working on a new e-commerce system based on your credit card balance. For a company whose CEO has repeatedly asserted that it is not interested in selling its customer data to advertisers, Apple sure is putting a lot of effort into developing new products that sell customer data to advertisers.
In a patent application filed today, Apple proposes a new e-commerce system that uses a mobile phone to deliver targeted ads to users based on what they can actually afford. This new patent comes on the heels of another recent in-development project for creating and tracking ads based on social media content that goes viral.
Read moreIf you’re an avid video gamer, chances are that you know of Epic Games. They’re the developers of popular games such as Infinity Blade, Gears of War, Unreal Tournament… and – if you’re as old as me – you might even remember their founder Tim Sweeney’s classic DOS era shareware game ZZT. In other words, they’re great at making video games.
“Maintenance tasks” sounds harmless enough, doesn’t it? But it’s not telling you the full story. Because what’s really happened is that hackers managed to compromise the forum, and may now have their paws on members’ usernames, email addresses, passwords, and dates of birth.
Read moreThe FBI and the US Department of Justice have helped break up a massive and notorious one-stop shop for cybercriminals, an online marketplace where hackers and others worldwide could buy and sell malicious software, stolen credit card data, lifted passwords and more.
The bureau and the DOJ said that "Operation Shrouded Horizon," a joint effort between law enforcement agencies in nearly 20 countries, had led to the seizure and shut down of the "Darkode" online forum's domain and servers. Seventy people involved in the forum, including its alleged administrator, have been indicted, with 12 of those indictments being handed down in the US, said the FBI and other officials.
Read moreSouth Korea's beleaguered spy agency has acknowledged exploring the purchase of technologies to intercept communications on smartphone chatting services, but maintains it only intended to strengthen its monitoring of rival North Korean agents.
The revelation is sensitive because the country's spy agency has a history of illegally tapping phone conversations. National Intelligence Service chief told legislators in a closed-door briefing that the agency bought hacking programs from an Italian company, Hacking Team, in 2012 that were designed to intercept information from cellphones and computers.
Read moreThe huge cache of internal files recently leaked from the controversial Italian surveillance software company Hacking Team has now revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation purchased surveillance software from the company.
The leaked documents contain internal emails, including emails from FBI agent who wanted to unmask the identity of a user of Tor, the encrypted anonymizing network widely used by activists to keep their identities safe, but also used to host criminal activities. An FBI agent asked Hacking Team if the latest version of its Remote Control System would be capable to reveal the True IP address of a Tor user.
Read moreCyber-crooks behind the notorious Dyre malware have set their sights on customers of Spanish banks. First spotted in 2014, Dyre targets banks all over Europe, apart from in Russia and former Soviet republics.
However, a new Trojan configuration file analysed by the IBM team suggests that the malware is gearing up for a concerted assault on Spanish banks. IBM Security researchers say that Dyre is one of the most advanced malware codes active in the wild because of its feature-rich capabilities and its constant updates, which are designed to evade detection by anti-virus and static security mechanisms.
Read moreCybercriminals are learning from each other. Take TeslaCrypt, for example. It is a relatively new family of ransomware; its samples were first detected in February 2015.
The notable feature of the early TeslaCrypt versions was that malware was targeting not only usual sets of files, including documents, pictures and videos, but games-related file types as well. By that time, it was a rather weak malware due to a couple of its technical flaws. Despite the fact malware creators scared their victims with the frightful RSA-2048 algorithm, in reality the encryption was not that strong.
Read moreTrend Micro has issued predictable-but-sensible advice that Java should be switched off, because there's a zero-day being exploited in the wild. Researchers said the exploit will hose systems running the latest Java platform. Because there's no patch, they added users should disable the code.
The attackers have been linked to Operation Pawn Storm, which targeted the likes of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the White House. The attackers' tactics, techniques, and procedures suggest the exploit was used by the same actors behind 2014 attacks on the White House and NATO among others under the campaign dubbed Operation Pawn Storm.
Read moreA fake news report purportedly from Bloomberg about a possible $31 billion takeover of Twitter spurred a five percent surge in the social network's shares Tuesday before it was denied.
The report appeared on a Bloomberg.market web page virtually identical to the powerful financial news agency's real pages at Bloomberg.com, and with links to other real Bloomberg reports. The fake report said Twitter "is working closely with bankers after receiving an offer to be bought out for $31 billion," citing, as news agencies frequently do in such reports, "people with knowledge of the situation." The story was fake.
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