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Anti-virus away! Android banking trojan blocks security apps to evade detection

Anti-virus away! Android banking trojan blocks security apps to evade detection

An Android banking trojan pops-up fake login forms in front of legitimate banking apps in order to steal credentials.

David Bisson reports.

Graham Cluley

How ISIS could use video games, messaging apps to evade surveillance

A new report sheds some light on how terrorists, particularly those with the Islamic State (ISIS) involved in last week’s deadly attacks in Paris, manage to communicate in an age when most communications tools are susceptible to government surveillance.

The most interesting is how the group can use video game platforms, specifically Sony’s PlayStation 4, to relay messages between members. A Buzzfeed News report quoted Belgium’s federal home affairs minister Jan Jambon, who had explained at an event prior to the Paris attacks that communications on a device like the PlayStation 4 could be more difficult to monitor than those on encrypted messaging apps, such as WhatsApp.

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Network World Colin Neagle

Malaysian police works with Interpol and FBI to evade cyber-warfare threat – SC Magazine UK

Malaysian police works with Interpol and FBI to evade cyberwarfare threat
SC Magazine UK
Police working with Interpol and the FBI to track down those involved in the internet warfare threat by Anonymous Malaysia, have made arrests in an attempt to thwart a planned attack according to Federal Commercial Crime Investigation Department deputy …

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