The various Mac OS-X malware cases we’ve seen over the last few years prove that no matter which operating system a user chooses, the concept of 100% security simply doesn’t exist – and that also Mac is of growing interest to malware writers.
Supply chain corruption is here – Android devices infected with malware prior to being bought by an end-user are a fact. This isn’t the first time that this is happened, not by a long way.
Google removed a handful of malicious apps, named Chamois Malware Apps, from their Google Play marketplace recently. These apps were found manipulating ad traffic, sending premium text messages, and downloading additional plugins.
The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four men accused of hacking into a half-billion Yahoo email accounts. Two of the men named in the indictments worked for a unit of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) that serves as the FBI’s point of contact in Moscow on cybercrime cases.
