Fake iOS Fitness Apps Steal Money
A series of iOS applications posing as fitness-tracking tools have been stealing users’ money by abusing the Touch ID feature, ESET has discovered. The trick used by the fake fitness apps is fairly simple: they ask the user to scan their fingerprint, supposedly for fitness-tracking purposes, but instead use this to activate a dodgy payment […]
Malware Dropper Supports a Dozen Decoy Document Formats
A recently discovered malware dropper has the ability to use nearly a dozen decoy document file formats to drop various payloads, Palo Alto Networks security researchers warn. Dubbed CARROTBAT, the customized dropper is being used to deliver lures primarily pertaining to the Korean region, revolving around subjects such as crypto-currencies, crypto-currency exchanges, and political events. […]
Symantec Unveils USB Scanning Station for ICS, IoT Environments
Symantec on Wednesday unveiled a new product designed to protect critical infrastructure organizations, including industrial and Internet of Things (IoT) environments, against USB-borne threats. Industrial Control System Protection (ICSP) Neural is a network-integrated USB scanning station that should make it easier for organizations to ensure that the USB drives used to transfer data between devices […]
