A Hacker's Tool Kit - Cybercrime is growing ever more pervasive—and costly.

Cybercrime is growing ever more pervasive—and costly. According to researcher Cybersecurity Ventures, the annual cost of cybercrime globally will rise from $3 trillion in 2015 to $6 trillion in 2021. Enabling this boom are thriving marketplaces online, where hackers sell tools and services to criminals. Virtually anything is available for the right price, points out Andrei Barysevich, director of advanced collection (“a fancy name for ‘spy,’ ” he says) at threat intelligence firm Recorded Future. A former consultant for the FBI’s cybercrime team in New York, Barysevich trawled the shadiest corners of the web to compile the cybercrime shopping list above, exclusively for Fortune. In the market for some basic malware? It’ll cost you as...

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Malwarebytes Introduces Malwarebytes for Android, Featuring Proprietary Anti-Ransomware Technology

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Malwarebytes™, the leader in advanced malware prevention and remediation solutions, today announced the release of Malwarebytes for Android, featuring targeted defense against mobile malware, ransomware, adware, infected applications and unauthorized surveillance. Combining multiple distinct protection layers, Malwarebytes for Android is a more effective and efficient replacement for antivirus on mobile devices. According to data collected by Malwarebytes in the first half of 2017, incidences of Android malware increased more than five percent since the start of the year. Most notably, incidents of Android ransomware increased 138 percent in Q2 2017 (April to...

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PayThink 'Self-protection' can shield banks from new Android BankBot card malware

Recently, the Dutch company Securify came across a new sample of the BankBot Android mobile banking malware. While older samples of BankBot mainly targeted Russian financial institutions, the latest sample shows that BankBot now targets European and American institutions as well. More specifically BankBot now targets over 420 leading institutions in countries such as Germany, France, Austria, the Netherlands, Turkey and the United States. BankBot is a banking Trojan horse that poses as an apparently benign consumer banking application. When the application is installed and run, it asks for administrative privileges. Once these privileges are granted, the icon disappears from the home screen. From that moment, the device is compromised...

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SURVEILLANCE MALWARE APPS MANAGE TO INFILTRATE GOOGLE PLAY STORE

Google’s Play Store has become home to some of the over a thousand malicious apps, known as ‘SonicSpy’, which have been deployed since February. Of the large number of spyware apps, believed to have come out of Iraq, at least three versions of the malware have appeared in the Play Store in the last six months, according to mobile security company Lookout. The malicious app most recently found on the Play Store was called Soniac – which was marketed as a customised version of cloud-based instant messaging service Telegram. However, it contained capabilities to silently record audio, takes photos, make outbound calls, send text messages to specific numbers, and retrieve information such as call logs, contacts and information about...

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Petya: Wiper or Ransomware & How to Protect Yourself

Learn the facts about the recent Petya attack that crippled many organizations worldwide.  - Is it your regular run-of-the-mill ransomware or a wiper? - Who is a target? Why did it spread so quickly?- How can organizations better protect themselves against similar attac...

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Update your iPhone to avoid being hacked over Wi-Fi

It’s only been five days since Apple’s last security update for iOS, when dozens of serious security vulnerabilities were patched. As we mentioned last week, the recent iOS 10.3 and macOS 10.12.4 updates included numerous fixes dealing with “arbitrary code execution with kernel privileges”. Any exploit that lets an external attacker tell the operating system kernel itself what to is a serious concern that ought to be patched as soon as possible – hesitation is not an option. After all, it’s the kernel that’s responsible for managing security in the rest of the system. Sophos Home Free home computer security software for all the family Learn More Take this analogy with pinch of salt, but an exploit that gives a remote attacker regular user access is like planting a spy...

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