MOST MOBILE CALLS around the world are made over the Global System for Mobile Communications standard; in the US, GSM underpins any call made over AT&T or T-Mobile networks. But at the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas on Saturday, researchers from BlackBerry are presenting an attack that can intercept GSM calls as they’re transmitted over the air and then decrypt them to listen back to what was said.Read More
Baldr is the name of a new family of information-stealing malware. Its authors first introduced it to cybercriminal circles in January, and about a month later, Microsoft’s security team reported that they have seen it in the wild. Bill Gates’ specialists said that the stealer is ‘highly obfuscated’ which usually suggests that someone has put a fair amount of effort into creating something powerful. Read More
Quasar Remote Access Trojan is a .NET framework open-source remote access trojan family used in cyber-criminal and cyber-espionage campaigns to target Windows operating system devices. It is often delivered via malicious attachments in phishing and spear-phishing emails.Read More
Masodas may be appear as new computer threat but in reality, this is just a remake of other ransomware from STOP family of malware. The name was derived from the extension that this threat is appending to all infected files and that is .masodas.Masodas is a high-risk ransomware-type infection designed to infiltrate computers and encrypt most of stored files. While doing so, Masodas appends filenames each filename with “.masodas” extension (thus its name).Read More
