Tag Archive for: legitimate

‘StrandHogg’ Vulnerability Allows Malware to Pose as Legitimate Android Apps

The flaw can allow hackers to take over typical device functions like sending messages and taking photos because users think malicious activity is a mobile app they use regularly.
Mobile Security – Threatpost

Beware malicious software updates for legitimate apps

Beware malicious software updates for legitimate apps

The ACLU warns of the risk that malicious code planted in legitimate software updates could compromise security.

Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.

Graham Cluley

Verizon DBIR: Over Half Of Data Breaches Exploited Legitimate Passwords In 2015 – Dark Reading


Dark Reading

Verizon DBIR: Over Half Of Data Breaches Exploited Legitimate Passwords In 2015
Dark Reading
… some 65 organizations, including law enforcement agencies, the US Department of Homeland Security, and numerous security vendors, contributed incident and breach data for the report, including several involved in the Dridex botnet takedown in

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