Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Source: Sophos

National elections have become a global stage for hackers to display their virtuosity, bringing the question of cybersecurity to the forefront of the conversation. Since Barack Obama accused the Russians of meddling in 2016’s presidential election in favor of Donald Trump, several European countries have taken their own measures to avoid such cyberattacks. Recently, the vulnerability of […]

We’re all familiar with the massive data leaks that Yahoo suffered last year. But until recently, we had very little in the way of clues as to who was behind the attacks which started at the beginning of 2014. As more evidence comes to light, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that this is not your run-of-the-mill […]

Why should you update your Android device’s operating system? Two words. Ghost Push. The well known trojan has had various iterations and it’s often updated to bypass new security updates. At its peak, Ghost Push infected over 600,000 Android devices daily, a colossal number. The trojan is capable of rooting phones, displaying revenue-generating ads that […]

Yesterday, our colleagues from Symantec published their analysis of Longhorn, an advanced threat actor that can be easily compared with Regin, ProjectSauron, Equation or Duqu2 in terms of its complexity. Longhorn, which we internally refer to as “The Lamberts”, first came to the attention of the ITSec community in 2014, when our colleagues from FireEye […]

A bug in Broadcom Wi-Fi firmware that has been patched on recent iPhones and some Google devices could affect many other devices too. Source: Sophos

You’d hope that the makers of connected adult devices might have learned something from the WeVibe debacle. Apparently not, if this latest example is anything to go by Source: Sophos

A new report by PwC UK and BAE Systems has revealed a sophisticated cyber campaign “of unprecedented size and scale” targeting managed IT service providers (MSPs). The campaign, dubbed Operation Cloud Hopper, was motivated by espionage and information gathering, as evidenced by the attackers’ choice of high value and low profile targets. The authors of […]

No less than $75,000 in cryptocurrency (Bitcoin or Ether), or $100,000 in iTunes gift cards — this is the exorbitant ransom that cybercriminals have demanded from Apple. The group,. Calling themselves the Turkish Crime Family, claims to have stolen access to 300 million iCloud accounts, and have threatened to wipe them on April 7 (tomorrow) […]

Ransomware’s popularity has attracted the attention of cybercriminal gangs; they use these malicious programs in targeted attacks on large organizations in order to steal money. In late 2016, we detected an increase in the number of attacks, the main goal of which was to launch an encryptor on an organization’s network nodes and servers. This […]