Chinese state-backed hackers are compromising telecom operators to steal text messages

Nov01
by on November 1, 2019 at 8:30 am
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APT41, one of China’s prolific hacking groups has developed a new kind of malware that can steal SMS messages from a cellular network. According to latest research by cybersecurity vendor FireEye, the state-backed threat actor — notorious for a barrage of espionage operations against geopolitical adversaries — developed the capabilities to monitor and save SMS traffic from specific phone numbers for subsequent theft. The malware — dubbed MESSAGETAP — was discovered on a Short Message Service Center (SMSC) server that was being used by a telecom firm to route SMS messages to intended recipients. Aside from employed to extract the…

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Update your iPhone 5 OS now to avoid issues with GPS, browsing, and email

Oct31
by on October 31, 2019 at 7:28 am
Posted In: Plugged


If you are still holding on dearly to your iPhone 5 (we salute you), you need to upgrade its software immediately to keep GPS, web, and email working. According to an Apple support page, you’ll need to update your device to iOS 10.3.4 before November 3. This is due to the GPS rollover problem that had started to affect devices from this April. GPS satellites transmit their data in 10-bit format. Every week, that number ticks along. So after every 1,024 weeks – approximately 19.7 years –, the clock resets. Most modern-day devices have an in-built solution for this, so consumers don’t…

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45,000 Android devices infected by new unremovable xHelper malware

Oct30
by on October 30, 2019 at 8:21 am
Posted In: Apps, Google


A new kind of Android malware capable of reinstalling itself even after being manually removed has reportedly infected more than 45,000 Android devices over the last six months. The latest findings — disclosed by cybersecurity firm Symantec — come after a similar disclosure by MalwareBytes, which first spotted the malware in the wild in May 2019. Called xHelper, the Trojan — affecting mostly users in India, the US, Russia — has since shot up to the top 10 list of most detected mobile malware, with Symantec observing what it calls “a surge in detections” of the malicious Android malware that can…

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