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Exclusive: Hackers Take Control Of Giant Construction Cranes
January 15, 2019
Federico Maggi will never forget the first time he saw a crane being hacked. Last March, he was on a strange kind of road trip. Travelling the Lombardi region of Italy with his colleague Marco Balduzzi in a red Volkswagen Polo, the pair hoped to convince construction site managers, who they’d never met or spoken with before, to let them have a crack at taking control of cranes with their hacking tools.
Tesla's software bug bounty is going to the big leagues with Pwn2Own
January 14, 2019
Most car manufacturers would dread the idea of someone hacking one of their vehicles, but Tesla has decided to go the other way and open up its software to a hacking contest called Pwn2Own in Vancouver. The winner will take home a Model 3.
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Google removes 85 adware apps that were installed by millions of users
January 8, 2019
Google has removed 85 Android apps from the official Play Store that security researchers from Trend Micro deemed to contain a common strain of adware.
Millions of Android users tricked into downloading 85 adware apps from Google Play
January 8, 2019
Another day, another batch of bad apps in Google Play. Researchers at security firm Trend Micro have discovered dozens of apps, including popular utilities and games, to serve a ton of deceptively displayed ads — including full-screen ads, hidden ads and ads running in the background to squeeze as much money out of unsuspecting Android users.
Chinese websites have been under attack for a week via a new PHP framework bug
December 21, 2018
Over 45,000 Chinese websites have been under a barrage of attacks from miscreants looking to gain access to web servers, ZDNet has learned.
Hackers Exploit Malware Attacks Through Twitter Memes
December 20, 2018
When it is about memes, people usually download them right away on their devices to share further. Posting memes on Facebook and Twitter has become something of a trend today. But, did you ever wonder you could also download malware with these memes? Researchers have discovered some malicious Twitter memes posted on an account that Twitter has since suspended.
Google pulls 15 apps from Play Store for fraudulent ad revenue grab
December 19, 2018
Preying on an individuals’ desire to personalize their mobile phones, scammers infused at least 15 Android wallpaper apps to redirect phony ad click revenue, reported Trend Micro in a blog post.
The Google Play Store removed the mobile phone apps, which were downloaded more than 222,200 times while being available over a period of several months. Victims were spotted in Italy, Taiwan, the United States, Germany and Indonesia appeared to be the most infected, according to Trend
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New malware pulls its instructions from code hidden in memes posted to Twitter
December 18, 2018
Security researchers said they’ve found a new kind of malware that takes its instructions from code hidden in memes posted to Twitter.
Memes posted to Twitter have been coded to talk to malware
December 17, 2018
You have probably seen dank memes that really speak to you, but research shows that memes can also be made to speak to malware that has infected a computer. A piece of malware analyzed in a report published Friday by Trend Micro responds to executable commands embedded in images posted on Twitter.
Smart Cities: Could These IoT Design Flaws Put The Lights Out?
December 6, 2018
New research has highlighted an old problem: The Internet of Things isn't exactly secure. Hardly news, you might say, but the researchers from Trend Micro discovered that two popular IoT protocols are insecure by design. So insecure, indeed, that they are putting both 'Industry 4.0' smart factory implementations and smart cities at risk. In fact, these are the design flaws that could quite literally turn the lights out.