This document analyzes the HummingBad Android malware campaign. It found that the campaign is run by a Chinese company called Yingmob and infects over 85 million Android devices worldwide, generating $300,000 per month for Yingmob through fraudulent ad revenue and app installations. The document provides details on how HummingBad works, the organization behind it, and its global reach and monetary impact.
The document analyzes mobile threat trends from 2013 based on data from over 50 million mobile users. It finds that mobile threats became increasingly targeted by region in 2013 as criminals adapted techniques to maximize profits. In stringent regulation regions, attacks shifted to "grey area" tactics like deceptive in-app billing. Overall, adware was most prevalent globally while malware rates varied greatly by region, from 4% in the US to 63% in Russia. Chargeware, like pornographic apps with hidden fees, also varied by country. Risky user behaviors like rooting a phone correlated with higher likelihood of encountering threats.
Mobile application piracy results in significant lost revenue for developers. An estimated 75% of mobile app downloads are unauthorized, amounting to billions in lost sales annually. Piracy is easy on jailbroken devices, where pirated versions of paid apps can be installed from sites like AppTrackr. While initial piracy rates are high, conversion of pirates to paying customers is low, around 0.43%. Piracy negatively impacts developers' revenue and marketing insights.
You may be surprised that nearly 2.2 billion smartphones and tablets will be sold to end users in 2014. With the number of smartphones and tablets on the increase and adoption of enterprise mobile computing on the rise, security breaches, malware attacks and exploitation of application vulnerability on mobile devices are maturing. By 2017, Gartner predicts that the focus of endpoint breaches will shift to tablets and smartphones. That indicates how important the subject of Mobile Security is and going to be in the future.
The document provides an overview and analysis of notable software failures that occurred in 2016. It discusses the total number of people and assets affected by software failures, breaks down failures by industry and software type, and highlights some of the largest and most impactful failures. The goal is to emphasize the pervasiveness of software failures and the need for improved testing to prevent failures and their consequences.
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The document summarizes key trends in cybercrime in 2017, including a massive 34,000% increase in coin mining detections as criminals shifted focus from ransomware. Ransomware detections remained high but did not break the 2016 record. Targeted banking Trojan Emotet reemerged and increased 2000%. The document also discusses the notable WannaCry and Petya attacks but notes they were exceptions and do not represent overall ransomware trends in 2017.
E marketer report on the Mobile media report on latin-america (4)Sumit Roy
The document provides an overview of economic and digital media trends in Latin America. It finds that while Latin America's economy grew in 2011 and 2012, growth is expected to slow going forward. Digital advertising is growing rapidly but still a small percentage of total ad spending. Internet penetration and smartphone adoption are lower in Latin America than global averages, but social media engagement is high, particularly in Brazil. Argentina has relatively high internet usage and growing broadband access, but fewer than one quarter of residents own smartphones.
The document analyzes mobile threat trends from 2013 based on data from over 50 million mobile users. It finds that mobile threats became increasingly targeted by region in 2013 as criminals adapted techniques to maximize profits. In stringent regulation regions, attacks shifted to "grey area" tactics like deceptive in-app billing. Overall, adware was most prevalent globally while malware rates varied greatly by region, from 4% in the US to 63% in Russia. Chargeware, like pornographic apps with hidden fees, also varied by country. Risky user behaviors like rooting a phone correlated with higher likelihood of encountering threats.
Mobile application piracy results in significant lost revenue for developers. An estimated 75% of mobile app downloads are unauthorized, amounting to billions in lost sales annually. Piracy is easy on jailbroken devices, where pirated versions of paid apps can be installed from sites like AppTrackr. While initial piracy rates are high, conversion of pirates to paying customers is low, around 0.43%. Piracy negatively impacts developers' revenue and marketing insights.
You may be surprised that nearly 2.2 billion smartphones and tablets will be sold to end users in 2014. With the number of smartphones and tablets on the increase and adoption of enterprise mobile computing on the rise, security breaches, malware attacks and exploitation of application vulnerability on mobile devices are maturing. By 2017, Gartner predicts that the focus of endpoint breaches will shift to tablets and smartphones. That indicates how important the subject of Mobile Security is and going to be in the future.
The document provides an overview and analysis of notable software failures that occurred in 2016. It discusses the total number of people and assets affected by software failures, breaks down failures by industry and software type, and highlights some of the largest and most impactful failures. The goal is to emphasize the pervasiveness of software failures and the need for improved testing to prevent failures and their consequences.
Istr number 23 internet security threat repor 2018 symantecSoluciona Facil
The document summarizes key trends in cybercrime in 2017, including a massive 34,000% increase in coin mining detections as criminals shifted focus from ransomware. Ransomware detections remained high but did not break the 2016 record. Targeted banking Trojan Emotet reemerged and increased 2000%. The document also discusses the notable WannaCry and Petya attacks but notes they were exceptions and do not represent overall ransomware trends in 2017.
E marketer report on the Mobile media report on latin-america (4)Sumit Roy
The document provides an overview of economic and digital media trends in Latin America. It finds that while Latin America's economy grew in 2011 and 2012, growth is expected to slow going forward. Digital advertising is growing rapidly but still a small percentage of total ad spending. Internet penetration and smartphone adoption are lower in Latin America than global averages, but social media engagement is high, particularly in Brazil. Argentina has relatively high internet usage and growing broadband access, but fewer than one quarter of residents own smartphones.
118 Hacker-Powered Facts From The 2018 Hacker-Powered Security ReportHackerOne
Another year, another Hacker-Powered Security Report! We pulled out 100 of the report’s top facts—and then added 18 more, since it’s 2018. See below for a better understanding of how hacker-powered security is disrupting (in a good way) how organizations approach security. More security teams are adding VDPs, more are supplementing their skills and bandwidth with hackers, and more are augmenting their standard pen tests with hacker challenges.
In 2018, the HackerOne community and those using our platform have combined to crush every metric that we track. Organizations awarded more than $11 million in bounties. Hackers submitted more than 78,000 reports. Bounties were awarded to hackers in over 100 countries.
Unfortunately, the only metric that hasn’t changed much is the percentage of Forbes Global 2000 companies without vulnerability disclosure policies.
Read on for all of the facts!
company names mentioned herein are for identification and educational purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners.
The Avast Threat Report provides an overview of global threat activity for Q1 2015.
Avast malware researchers and Avast customers work 24/7 to protect each other. Avast protects 230 million people worldwide in more than 186 different countries — we are present in more countries than McDonalds and protect more people than any other antivirus security provider.
The Q1 security report looks at the state of cyberthreats as it relates to Wi-Fi, PC threats, mobile threats, and the steady evolution of ransomware.
The document discusses privacy and security issues with mobile advertising on Android devices. It introduces the OPERANDO project which aims to provide privacy enforcement tools. It describes how the dominant "freemium" business model relies on targeted advertising and data collection. Mobile ads can be injected maliciously and access sensitive permissions. The document then introduces AndroPatchApp, a tool it developed that modifies apps upon installation to block ad libraries and protect user privacy by hiding location and disabling JavaScript. It provides statistics on top ad libraries blocked and shows the tool in action.
1. Cyber threats continue to evolve and take new forms, with traditional anti-virus approaches no longer sufficient against modern threats. New malicious programs are being created faster than legitimate software.
2. Social engineering and phishing attacks targeting individual users directly will increase in popularity and become a primary attack vector in 2010.
3. As new platforms like Windows 7 and smartphones gain popularity, attackers will develop new exploits targeting these systems, and malware affecting Macs and mobile devices will rise.
The Android operating system continued to be the primary target for mobile malware in 2012, with the number of malware attacks more than doubling from 2011. Cybercriminals expanded beyond China and Eastern Europe to target consumers in the United States, Saudi Arabia, and other markets. One of the most profitable trends for cybercriminals was combining mobile malware with social engineering techniques like phishing and smishing to steal users' financial information.
The document summarizes a research paper that studied detecting malicious Android applications in official and third-party Android app markets. The researchers developed a system called DroidRanger that uses permission-based filtering and behavioral analysis to detect both known and unknown malware. DroidRanger revealed 211 malicious apps total, with 32 from the official market and 179 from alternative markets. It also discovered a sophisticated zero-day malware with 40 samples, 11 of which were in the official market.
Welcome to the May edition of the Symantec Intelligence report. Symantec Intelligence aims to provide the latest analysis of cyber security threats, trends, and insights concerning malware, spam, and other potentially harmful business risks.
Symantec has established the most comprehensive source of Internet threat data in the world through the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, which is made up of more than 57.6 million attack sensors and records thousands of events per second. This network monitors threat activity in over 157 countries and territories through a combination of Symantec products and services such as Symantec DeepSight Intelligence, Symantec Managed Security Services, Norton consumer products, and other third-party data sources.
This document provides a summary of cybersecurity threats and trends from Symantec's January 2014 Intelligence Report. Some key highlights include:
- Two large data breaches were reported in January exposing over 105 million identities total. The number exposed in a November breach was adjusted upwards to 110 million identities.
- Targeted attacks increased in January to their highest level since August 2013, with manufacturing and non-traditional services being the most targeted industries.
- 555 new vulnerabilities were reported in January, bringing the 12-month total to 6443. Google Chrome and Oracle Java had the most browser and plugin vulnerabilities respectively.
- The global spam rate decreased slightly while phishing and email virus rates also reduced. Sex
The document summarizes cyber threat trends in 2018 according to a Symantec report. It saw a rise in formjacking attacks that steal payment card data, though cryptojacking activity declined along with cryptocurrency values. Ransomware infections decreased overall but rose for enterprises. Living off the land attacks using tools like PowerShell increased substantially. Targeted attacks grew more sophisticated with groups targeting operational systems and destructive malware.
The FBI is the lead federal agency for investigating malicious cyber activity by criminals, nation-state adversaries, and terrorists. To fulfill this mission, the FBI often develops resources to enhance operations and collaboration. One such resource is the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) which provides the public with a trustworthy and convenient mechanism for reporting information concerning suspected Internet-facilitated criminal activity. At the end of every year, the IC3 collates information collected into an annual report.
Credit is due to all original authors and no financial gain was made from the blog, Simply sharing an interesting story for educational purposes,
The document presents FRAppE, a tool for detecting malicious Facebook applications. FRAppE analyzes data from 111,000 Facebook applications seen across 2.2 million users to identify distinguishing features between malicious and benign apps. Using these features, FRAppE can detect malicious apps with 99.5% accuracy while having no false positives and a low false negative rate of 4.1%. The document also explores how malicious apps collude to propagate across Facebook by enabling the viral spread of other malicious apps through posts.
This document discusses several major cybersecurity breaches in recent years that compromised personal information for hundreds of millions of users. It notes breaches at Yahoo (3 billion accounts), Adult Friend Finder (412 million users), eBay (145 million users), Target (110 million users), Sony PlayStation Network (77 million accounts), and Uber (57 million users). The document also discusses the significant costs and consequences of these breaches for the companies involved, as well as the growing global shortage of cybersecurity professionals needed to help prevent future attacks.
This document provides an overview of 16 dynamic analysis platforms for analyzing Android applications and detecting malware. It evaluates these platforms' effectiveness using known malware samples and known Android bugs. The results show low diversity among platforms due to code reuse, making them vulnerable to evasion. Additionally, the platforms could be exploited by malware using the Master Key bugs to hide malicious behavior.
1) The document provides an overview of four major types of mobile fraud: incentivized install fraud, falsified install fraud, mobile purchase fraud, and mobile app advertising fraud.
2) Incentivized install fraud involves media vendors obscuring that their traffic is incentivized by rewarding users to install apps, while marketers pay for regular installs. Falsified install fraud fakes app install signals when no install occurred.
3) Mobile purchase fraud involves the theft of virtual goods or IAPs in games, while real goods fraud includes identity theft and unauthorized credit card use.
4) Mobile app advertising fraud delivers fake or invalid ad impressions and clicks using fraudulent apps/malware or simulated devices
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Android mobile platform security and malware surveyeSAT Journals
Abstract As mobile devices become ubiquitous, more people and companies are readily adopting the technology to conduct day-to-day business, and are increasing the amount of personal data transmitted and stored on these devices. These devices are now part of a global infrastructure powering communication and how we do business around the world. In turn, the inherent vulnerabilities are becoming an ever more critical topic of interest and challenge as we continue to see a rapid rate of malware development. This paper is a comprehensive survey on a broad view of the growing Android community, its rapidly growing malware attacks, and security concerns. Serving to aid in the continuous challenge of identifying current and future vulnerabilities as well as incorporating security strategies against them, this survey will focus primarily on mobile devices (also known as smart phones) running the Android mobile operating system between the years of 2007 and 2013. Index Terms: mobile, Android, malware, security
118 Hacker-Powered Facts From The 2018 Hacker-Powered Security ReportHackerOne
Another year, another Hacker-Powered Security Report! We pulled out 100 of the report’s top facts—and then added 18 more, since it’s 2018. See below for a better understanding of how hacker-powered security is disrupting (in a good way) how organizations approach security. More security teams are adding VDPs, more are supplementing their skills and bandwidth with hackers, and more are augmenting their standard pen tests with hacker challenges.
In 2018, the HackerOne community and those using our platform have combined to crush every metric that we track. Organizations awarded more than $11 million in bounties. Hackers submitted more than 78,000 reports. Bounties were awarded to hackers in over 100 countries.
Unfortunately, the only metric that hasn’t changed much is the percentage of Forbes Global 2000 companies without vulnerability disclosure policies.
Read on for all of the facts!
company names mentioned herein are for identification and educational purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners.
The Avast Threat Report provides an overview of global threat activity for Q1 2015.
Avast malware researchers and Avast customers work 24/7 to protect each other. Avast protects 230 million people worldwide in more than 186 different countries — we are present in more countries than McDonalds and protect more people than any other antivirus security provider.
The Q1 security report looks at the state of cyberthreats as it relates to Wi-Fi, PC threats, mobile threats, and the steady evolution of ransomware.
The document discusses privacy and security issues with mobile advertising on Android devices. It introduces the OPERANDO project which aims to provide privacy enforcement tools. It describes how the dominant "freemium" business model relies on targeted advertising and data collection. Mobile ads can be injected maliciously and access sensitive permissions. The document then introduces AndroPatchApp, a tool it developed that modifies apps upon installation to block ad libraries and protect user privacy by hiding location and disabling JavaScript. It provides statistics on top ad libraries blocked and shows the tool in action.
1. Cyber threats continue to evolve and take new forms, with traditional anti-virus approaches no longer sufficient against modern threats. New malicious programs are being created faster than legitimate software.
2. Social engineering and phishing attacks targeting individual users directly will increase in popularity and become a primary attack vector in 2010.
3. As new platforms like Windows 7 and smartphones gain popularity, attackers will develop new exploits targeting these systems, and malware affecting Macs and mobile devices will rise.
The Android operating system continued to be the primary target for mobile malware in 2012, with the number of malware attacks more than doubling from 2011. Cybercriminals expanded beyond China and Eastern Europe to target consumers in the United States, Saudi Arabia, and other markets. One of the most profitable trends for cybercriminals was combining mobile malware with social engineering techniques like phishing and smishing to steal users' financial information.
The document summarizes a research paper that studied detecting malicious Android applications in official and third-party Android app markets. The researchers developed a system called DroidRanger that uses permission-based filtering and behavioral analysis to detect both known and unknown malware. DroidRanger revealed 211 malicious apps total, with 32 from the official market and 179 from alternative markets. It also discovered a sophisticated zero-day malware with 40 samples, 11 of which were in the official market.
Welcome to the May edition of the Symantec Intelligence report. Symantec Intelligence aims to provide the latest analysis of cyber security threats, trends, and insights concerning malware, spam, and other potentially harmful business risks.
Symantec has established the most comprehensive source of Internet threat data in the world through the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, which is made up of more than 57.6 million attack sensors and records thousands of events per second. This network monitors threat activity in over 157 countries and territories through a combination of Symantec products and services such as Symantec DeepSight Intelligence, Symantec Managed Security Services, Norton consumer products, and other third-party data sources.
This document provides a summary of cybersecurity threats and trends from Symantec's January 2014 Intelligence Report. Some key highlights include:
- Two large data breaches were reported in January exposing over 105 million identities total. The number exposed in a November breach was adjusted upwards to 110 million identities.
- Targeted attacks increased in January to their highest level since August 2013, with manufacturing and non-traditional services being the most targeted industries.
- 555 new vulnerabilities were reported in January, bringing the 12-month total to 6443. Google Chrome and Oracle Java had the most browser and plugin vulnerabilities respectively.
- The global spam rate decreased slightly while phishing and email virus rates also reduced. Sex
The document summarizes cyber threat trends in 2018 according to a Symantec report. It saw a rise in formjacking attacks that steal payment card data, though cryptojacking activity declined along with cryptocurrency values. Ransomware infections decreased overall but rose for enterprises. Living off the land attacks using tools like PowerShell increased substantially. Targeted attacks grew more sophisticated with groups targeting operational systems and destructive malware.
The FBI is the lead federal agency for investigating malicious cyber activity by criminals, nation-state adversaries, and terrorists. To fulfill this mission, the FBI often develops resources to enhance operations and collaboration. One such resource is the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) which provides the public with a trustworthy and convenient mechanism for reporting information concerning suspected Internet-facilitated criminal activity. At the end of every year, the IC3 collates information collected into an annual report.
Credit is due to all original authors and no financial gain was made from the blog, Simply sharing an interesting story for educational purposes,
The document presents FRAppE, a tool for detecting malicious Facebook applications. FRAppE analyzes data from 111,000 Facebook applications seen across 2.2 million users to identify distinguishing features between malicious and benign apps. Using these features, FRAppE can detect malicious apps with 99.5% accuracy while having no false positives and a low false negative rate of 4.1%. The document also explores how malicious apps collude to propagate across Facebook by enabling the viral spread of other malicious apps through posts.
This document discusses several major cybersecurity breaches in recent years that compromised personal information for hundreds of millions of users. It notes breaches at Yahoo (3 billion accounts), Adult Friend Finder (412 million users), eBay (145 million users), Target (110 million users), Sony PlayStation Network (77 million accounts), and Uber (57 million users). The document also discusses the significant costs and consequences of these breaches for the companies involved, as well as the growing global shortage of cybersecurity professionals needed to help prevent future attacks.
This document provides an overview of 16 dynamic analysis platforms for analyzing Android applications and detecting malware. It evaluates these platforms' effectiveness using known malware samples and known Android bugs. The results show low diversity among platforms due to code reuse, making them vulnerable to evasion. Additionally, the platforms could be exploited by malware using the Master Key bugs to hide malicious behavior.
1) The document provides an overview of four major types of mobile fraud: incentivized install fraud, falsified install fraud, mobile purchase fraud, and mobile app advertising fraud.
2) Incentivized install fraud involves media vendors obscuring that their traffic is incentivized by rewarding users to install apps, while marketers pay for regular installs. Falsified install fraud fakes app install signals when no install occurred.
3) Mobile purchase fraud involves the theft of virtual goods or IAPs in games, while real goods fraud includes identity theft and unauthorized credit card use.
4) Mobile app advertising fraud delivers fake or invalid ad impressions and clicks using fraudulent apps/malware or simulated devices
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Android mobile platform security and malware surveyeSAT Journals
Abstract As mobile devices become ubiquitous, more people and companies are readily adopting the technology to conduct day-to-day business, and are increasing the amount of personal data transmitted and stored on these devices. These devices are now part of a global infrastructure powering communication and how we do business around the world. In turn, the inherent vulnerabilities are becoming an ever more critical topic of interest and challenge as we continue to see a rapid rate of malware development. This paper is a comprehensive survey on a broad view of the growing Android community, its rapidly growing malware attacks, and security concerns. Serving to aid in the continuous challenge of identifying current and future vulnerabilities as well as incorporating security strategies against them, this survey will focus primarily on mobile devices (also known as smart phones) running the Android mobile operating system between the years of 2007 and 2013. Index Terms: mobile, Android, malware, security
Symantec propone un'analisi approfondita sui Rogue Security Software. I RSS sono applicazioni fasulle che fingono di fornire servizi di tutela della sicurezza informatica ma che, al contrario, hanno come obiettivo quello di installare dei codici maligni che compromettono la sicurezza generale della macchina.
Panoramica - Rischi - Principali modalità di diffusione e distribuzione.
Il periodo di osservazione va da luglio 2008 a giugno 2009, qui è presentato un sommario dello Studio.
IRJET- A Survey on Android Ransomware and its Detection MethodsIRJET Journal
This document summarizes methods for detecting Android ransomware through static, dynamic, and hybrid analysis approaches. Static analysis involves analyzing an Android app's code and resources without executing it. Some key static analysis techniques discussed are permission analysis, text analysis to search for ransomware keywords, and code analysis to check for encryption or screen locking behavior. Dynamic analysis executes the app and monitors its runtime behavior. Hybrid analysis combines both static and dynamic techniques. The document outlines several studies that have proposed and evaluated different static, dynamic, and hybrid analysis methods for detecting Android ransomware.
The document is a report from G DATA on mobile malware trends in Q2 2015. Some key points:
- G DATA analyzed over 560,000 new Android malware samples in Q2 2015, a 27% increase from Q1. On average, over 6,100 new samples were found daily.
- For the first time, over 1 million new Android malware samples were found in the first half of 2015 alone. G DATA predicts over 2 million new samples for all of 2015.
- Monitoring apps that secretly track users are a growing threat. One app disguised itself as Google Drive but was actually monitoring app.
- Pre-installed malware has been found on over 26 mobile device models from various brands. Middle
Android Malware: Study and analysis of malware for privacy leak in ad-hoc net...IOSR Journals
This document discusses analyzing Android malware that can leak privacy information in ad-hoc networks. It proposes using static and dynamic analysis methods to detect malware. In static analysis, reverse engineering is used to detect malicious code by decompiling Android app install files. In dynamic analysis, apps are run in an emulator to monitor their network behavior using tools like Snort. Destinations are then white-listed or blacklisted based on safety. The approach is compared to third party apps and is shown to also be effective at detecting malware that uses internet permissions to leak privacy data in small datasets.
Eurecom уличили приложения для Android в тайной от пользователя активностиSergey Ulankin
This research report summarizes a study that characterized the network behavior of Android applications through analyzing the URLs they connect to. The researchers developed a lightweight methodology to automatically extract network traces from applications and categorize the destination URLs. They found instances of excessive advertising, user tracking, and connections to previously suspicious sites. To provide visibility into app network activity, the researchers also developed an Android application to monitor outgoing traffic and identify destinations in categories like ads, trackers, and suspicious sites.
The document summarizes a mobile threat report for Q3 2013. It finds that 252 of the 259 new mobile threat families and variants discovered were for Android, with trojans making up the largest percentage at 88%. It also notes an increasing trend of profit-motivated mobile malware, with 81.1% of new threats aiming to generate money through unauthorized SMS messages. The report discusses recent developments like the identification of the creator of the Pincer Android banking trojan and the emergence of tools that simplify inserting malware into legitimate apps.
There are 2 main forms of mobile fraud - display ad fraud and install fraud. This deck focuses on the far more lucrative and larger form - mobile display fraud.
The document summarizes several cybersecurity news items. It discusses the Pentagon's first bug bounty program which uncovered 138 vulnerabilities. It also describes the HummingBad malware targeting Android devices to generate ad revenue through rooting phones and fake system updates. Additionally, it mentions a security risk from smartwatches that may be able to infer ATM PINs through analyzing hand movements during input.
The document discusses security issues with Android applications. It notes that while Android was designed with security in mind through privilege separation for apps, applications are granted permissions upon installation that are not checked again, allowing potential misuse. This could allow bad actors to convince users to install apps that access private information. The document also notes that Android malware has increased significantly in recent years, with over 100,000 detected in 2012. It introduces Trend Micro's Mobile App Reputation service, which analyzes apps for malware, privacy risks, and performance issues to provide reputation scores and reports to app stores.
AndRadar: Fast Discovery of Android Applications in Alternative MarketsFACE
Compared to traditional desktop software, Android applica- tions are delivered through software repositories, commonly known as application markets. Other mobile platforms, such as Apple iOS and BlackBerry OS also use the marketplace model, but what is unique to Android is the existence of a plethora of alternative application markets. This complicates the task of detecting and tracking Android malware. Identifying a malicious application in one particular market is simply not enough, as many instances of this application may exist in other markets. To quantify this phenomenon, we exhaustively crawled 8 markets between June and November 2013. Our findings indicate that alternative markets host a large number of ad-aggressive apps, a non-negligible amount of mal- ware, and some markets even allow authors to publish known malicious apps without prompt action.
Motivated by these findings, we present AndRadar, a framework for dis- covering multiple instances of a malicious Android application in a set of alternative application markets. AndRadar scans a set of markets in parallel to discover similar applications. Each lookup takes no more than a few seconds, regardless of the size of the marketplace. Moreover, it is modular, and new markets can be transparently added once the search and download URLs are known.
Using AndRadar we are able to achieve three goals. First, we can discover malicious applications in alternative markets, second, we can expose app distribution strategies used by malware developers, and third, we can moni- tor how different markets react to new malware. During a three-month eval- uation period, AndRadar tracked over 20,000 apps and recorded more than 1,500 app deletions in 16 markets. Nearly 8% of those deletions were related to apps that were hopping from market to market. The most established markets were able to react and delete new malware within tens of days from the malicious app publication date while other markets did not react at all.
The document discusses analyzing Android malware. It describes setting up a lab with an Android SDK virtual machine. Tools for static and dynamic analysis are outlined. The document then demonstrates analyzing a malware sample that sends SMS messages to a premium rate number, extracting the APK, decompiling the code, and identifying the malicious behavior. By reversing the malware, the author was able to determine the phone number and text messages it was sending, thus "having" the malware and being able to control it.
Adaptive Mobile Malware Detection Model Based on CBRijtsrd
Today, the mobile phones can maintain lots of sensitive information. With the increasing capabilities of such phones, more and more malicious software malware targeting these devices have emerged. However there are many mobile malware detection techniques, they used specified classifiers on selected features to get their best accuracy. Thus, an adaptive malware detection approach is required to effectively detect the concept drift of mobile malware and maintain the accuracy. An adaptive malware detection approach is proposed based on case based reasoning technique in this paper to handle the concept drift issue in mobile malware detection. To demonstrate the design decision of our approach, several experiments are conducted. Large features set with 1,065 features from 10 different categories are used in evaluation. The evaluation includes both accuracy and efficiency of the model. The experimental results prove that our approach achieves acceptable performance and accuracy for the malware detection. Kyaw Soe Moe | Mya Mya Thwe "Adaptive Mobile Malware Detection Model Based on CBR" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-6 , October 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd28088.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/computer-security/28088/adaptive-mobile-malware-detection-model-based-on-cbr/kyaw-soe-moe
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The document summarizes technical details about ShadowPad, a modular cyber attack platform deployed through compromised software. It describes how ShadowPad operates in two stages, with an initial shellcode embedded in legitimate software that connects to command and control servers. The second stage acts as an orchestrator for five main modules, including for communication, DNS protocols, and loading additional plugins. Payloads are received from the C&C server as plugins and can perform data exfiltration.
The Center for Democracy & Technology filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission requesting an investigation into Hotspot Shield VPN's data sharing and security practices. The complaint alleges that Hotspot Shield makes strong claims about not tracking or logging user data, but its privacy policy describes more extensive logging. It is also alleged that Hotspot Shield uses third-party tracking libraries to facilitate targeted advertisements, contradicting its promises of privacy and security.
Nexusguard d do_s_threat_report_q1_2017_enAndrey Apuhtin
This document provides a summary of DDoS attack trends in Q1 2017 according to Nexusguard's analysis. Key findings include a 380% increase in attacks compared to the previous year, with unusually large attacks on holidays such as Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day. HTTP floods became the most common attack vector. The US was the top source of attacks globally, while China was the top source in the Asia-Pacific region. Larger and more complex multi-vector attacks targeting both volumetric and application layers became more common.
The document summarizes cybersecurity trends in the financial services sector in 2016. Some key points:
1) The financial services sector remained the most attacked industry in 2016, experiencing 65% more attacks on average than other sectors. Common attack methods included SQL injection and command injection exploits.
2) While total attacks increased in 2016, average security incidents decreased for financial services organizations monitored by IBM.
3) Insider threats, both malicious and inadvertent, posed a larger risk than outsider attacks for financial services organizations. The majority of insider attacks were caused by inadvertent or compromised systems rather than malicious insiders.
This document provides a summary of CLDAP reflection DDoS attacks observed by Akamai between October 2016 and January 2017. It details the attack methods, timelines, largest attacks observed, affected industries, source distributions by country and ASN, mitigation recommendations including filtering port 389, and conclusions regarding CLDAP reflection as an emerging DDoS vector.
This document provides a technical analysis of Pegasus spyware samples found on Android devices. Pegasus for Android (called Chrysaor) shares many capabilities with the iOS version, including exfiltrating data from apps, remote controlling devices via SMS, audio surveillance, screenshot capture, and disabling system updates. It uses known Android exploits to gain root access and SMS, HTTP, and MQTT for command and control. The spyware is designed to evade detection and delete itself if detected. Analysis of the samples revealed how the malware infects devices, communicates with its operators, and surreptitiously collects information from infected phones.
This document summarizes a study on zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits. The study obtained rare access to data on zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits to analyze metrics like life status, longevity, collision rates, and development costs. Some key findings include: 1) exploits have an average lifespan of 6.9 years after discovery before being patched, but 25% will last less than 1.5 years and 25% will last over 9.5 years, 2) after 1 year, approximately 5.7% of vulnerabilities in a stockpile will be discovered and disclosed by others, and 3) once an exploitable vulnerability is found, the median time to develop a working exploit is 22 days. The results provide insights to inform policy debates on
The APWG recorded more phishing in 2016 than in any previous year. In the 4th quarter of 2016, there were over 277,000 unique phishing sites detected, representing a 65% increase in total phishing attacks for 2016 compared to 2015. Phishing attacks have increased dramatically over the past 12 years, with an average of over 92,000 attacks per month in the 4th quarter of 2016 compared to just 1,600 attacks per month in the 4th quarter of 2004. Fraudsters in Brazil are increasingly using social media and mobile apps to defraud users in addition to traditional phishing techniques, though many of the hosting infrastructure for these attacks are located outside of Brazil, particularly in the United States and
This document contains a list of websites categorized into different areas of interest: finance, gambling, e-commerce, dating, and other. Over 50 websites are listed related to online payment processing, gambling sites, major retailers, social media, travel, and dating platforms. The list appears to have been compiled from someone's browser history.
The document lists processes and components of different point of sale (POS) software, including BrasilPOS, cch tax14, cch tax15, AccuPOS, Active-Charge, ADRM.EndPoint.Service, AFR38, Aireus, Aldelo, alohaedc, APRINT6, Aracs, aRPLUSPOS, ASTPOS, AxUpdatePortal, barnetPOS, bt, BTFULL, callerIdserver, CapptaGpPlus, CashBox, CashClub, CashFootprint, and Catapult.
Processes and components antivirus lists the executable files and processes associated with major antivirus software programs. It includes the process names for antivirus programs from companies like Avast, AVG, Avira, ClamWin Antivirus, ESET, F-Secure, GData, GFI Antivirus, Kaspersky, MalwareBytes Antivirus, McAfee, Microsoft, Panda, Sophos, Symantec, Trend Micro, and WebRoot Antivirus. The list provides information on the core processes used by antivirus software to scan for malware, monitor systems for infections, and provide protection.
The document analyzes the prevalence and security impact of HTTPS interception by middleboxes and antivirus software. The researchers developed techniques to detect interception based on differences between the TLS handshake and HTTP user agent. Applying these techniques to billions of connections, they found interception rates over an order of magnitude higher than previous estimates, and that the majority (97-62%) of intercepted connections had reduced security, with 10-40% vulnerable to decryption. Testing of interception products found most reduced security and many introduced severe vulnerabilities. The findings indicate widespread interception negatively impacts security.
This bill directs the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to conduct a study to determine appropriate cybersecurity standards for motor vehicles. The study would identify necessary isolation, detection, and prevention measures to protect critical software systems. It would also identify best practices for securing driving data. The Administrator would submit a preliminary report within 1 year and a final report within 6 months, including recommendations for adoption of standards and any necessary legislation.
A former employee of the Federal Reserve Board installed unauthorized software on a Board server to earn bitcoins through the server's computing power. The employee modified security safeguards to remotely access the server from home. When confronted, the employee initially denied wrongdoing but later remotely deleted the software to conceal actions. Forensic analysis confirmed the employee's involvement, resulting in termination and a guilty plea to unlawful conversion of government property. The employee was sentenced to 12 months probation and a $5,000 fine.
Microsoft released patches for over 100 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, and Edge in 2016. While the number of vulnerabilities exploited in Internet Explorer before patching declined, no vulnerabilities in the newer Edge browser were exploited. Windows 10 introduced new security features like Attack Surface Reduction that remove vulnerable components. Over 60 vulnerabilities were also patched in various Windows user-mode components, with remote code execution being the most common type.
Muddy Waters Capital is short St. Jude Medical due to serious cybersecurity vulnerabilities identified in STJ's implantable cardiac devices. Researchers were able to replicate attacks that could cause devices to malfunction dangerously or drain batteries. The vulnerabilities stem from a lack of security protections in STJ's device ecosystem, including hundreds of thousands of home monitoring units distributed without adequate safeguards. A cardiologist is advising patients to unplug monitors and delaying implants until issues are addressed, which could take STJ at least two years to remediate through a recall and system rework. The cybersecurity risks may result in litigation if exploits endanger patients.
Atelier - Innover avec l’IA Générative et les graphes de connaissancesNeo4j
Atelier - Innover avec l’IA Générative et les graphes de connaissances
Allez au-delà du battage médiatique autour de l’IA et découvrez des techniques pratiques pour utiliser l’IA de manière responsable à travers les données de votre organisation. Explorez comment utiliser les graphes de connaissances pour augmenter la précision, la transparence et la capacité d’explication dans les systèmes d’IA générative. Vous partirez avec une expérience pratique combinant les relations entre les données et les LLM pour apporter du contexte spécifique à votre domaine et améliorer votre raisonnement.
Amenez votre ordinateur portable et nous vous guiderons sur la mise en place de votre propre pile d’IA générative, en vous fournissant des exemples pratiques et codés pour démarrer en quelques minutes.
Hand Rolled Applicative User ValidationCode KataPhilip Schwarz
Could you use a simple piece of Scala validation code (granted, a very simplistic one too!) that you can rewrite, now and again, to refresh your basic understanding of Applicative operators <*>, <*, *>?
The goal is not to write perfect code showcasing validation, but rather, to provide a small, rough-and ready exercise to reinforce your muscle-memory.
Despite its grandiose-sounding title, this deck consists of just three slides showing the Scala 3 code to be rewritten whenever the details of the operators begin to fade away.
The code is my rough and ready translation of a Haskell user-validation program found in a book called Finding Success (and Failure) in Haskell - Fall in love with applicative functors.
Software Engineering, Software Consulting, Tech Lead, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Core, Spring JDBC, Spring Transaction, Spring MVC, OpenShift Cloud Platform, Kafka, REST, SOAP, LLD & HLD.
OpenMetadata Community Meeting - 5th June 2024OpenMetadata
The OpenMetadata Community Meeting was held on June 5th, 2024. In this meeting, we discussed about the data quality capabilities that are integrated with the Incident Manager, providing a complete solution to handle your data observability needs. Watch the end-to-end demo of the data quality features.
* How to run your own data quality framework
* What is the performance impact of running data quality frameworks
* How to run the test cases in your own ETL pipelines
* How the Incident Manager is integrated
* Get notified with alerts when test cases fail
Watch the meeting recording here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbNOje0kf6E
Top Features to Include in Your Winzo Clone App for Business Growth (4).pptxrickgrimesss22
Discover the essential features to incorporate in your Winzo clone app to boost business growth, enhance user engagement, and drive revenue. Learn how to create a compelling gaming experience that stands out in the competitive market.
A Study of Variable-Role-based Feature Enrichment in Neural Models of CodeAftab Hussain
Understanding variable roles in code has been found to be helpful by students
in learning programming -- could variable roles help deep neural models in
performing coding tasks? We do an exploratory study.
- These are slides of the talk given at InteNSE'23: The 1st International Workshop on Interpretability and Robustness in Neural Software Engineering, co-located with the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2023, Melbourne Australia
Takashi Kobayashi and Hironori Washizaki, "SWEBOK Guide and Future of SE Education," First International Symposium on the Future of Software Engineering (FUSE), June 3-6, 2024, Okinawa, Japan
Graspan: A Big Data System for Big Code AnalysisAftab Hussain
We built a disk-based parallel graph system, Graspan, that uses a novel edge-pair centric computation model to compute dynamic transitive closures on very large program graphs.
We implement context-sensitive pointer/alias and dataflow analyses on Graspan. An evaluation of these analyses on large codebases such as Linux shows that their Graspan implementations scale to millions of lines of code and are much simpler than their original implementations.
These analyses were used to augment the existing checkers; these augmented checkers found 132 new NULL pointer bugs and 1308 unnecessary NULL tests in Linux 4.4.0-rc5, PostgreSQL 8.3.9, and Apache httpd 2.2.18.
- Accepted in ASPLOS ‘17, Xi’an, China.
- Featured in the tutorial, Systemized Program Analyses: A Big Data Perspective on Static Analysis Scalability, ASPLOS ‘17.
- Invited for presentation at SoCal PLS ‘16.
- Invited for poster presentation at PLDI SRC ‘16.
Microservice Teams - How the cloud changes the way we workSven Peters
A lot of technical challenges and complexity come with building a cloud-native and distributed architecture. The way we develop backend software has fundamentally changed in the last ten years. Managing a microservices architecture demands a lot of us to ensure observability and operational resiliency. But did you also change the way you run your development teams?
Sven will talk about Atlassian’s journey from a monolith to a multi-tenanted architecture and how it affected the way the engineering teams work. You will learn how we shifted to service ownership, moved to more autonomous teams (and its challenges), and established platform and enablement teams.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
What is Augmented Reality Image Trackingpavan998932
Augmented Reality (AR) Image Tracking is a technology that enables AR applications to recognize and track images in the real world, overlaying digital content onto them. This enhances the user's interaction with their environment by providing additional information and interactive elements directly tied to physical images.
Odoo ERP software
Odoo ERP software, a leading open-source software for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and business management, has recently launched its latest version, Odoo 17 Community Edition. This update introduces a range of new features and enhancements designed to streamline business operations and support growth.
The Odoo Community serves as a cost-free edition within the Odoo suite of ERP systems. Tailored to accommodate the standard needs of business operations, it provides a robust platform suitable for organisations of different sizes and business sectors. Within the Odoo Community Edition, users can access a variety of essential features and services essential for managing day-to-day tasks efficiently.
This blog presents a detailed overview of the features available within the Odoo 17 Community edition, and the differences between Odoo 17 community and enterprise editions, aiming to equip you with the necessary information to make an informed decision about its suitability for your business.
Introducing Crescat - Event Management Software for Venues, Festivals and Eve...Crescat
Crescat is industry-trusted event management software, built by event professionals for event professionals. Founded in 2017, we have three key products tailored for the live event industry.
Crescat Event for concert promoters and event agencies. Crescat Venue for music venues, conference centers, wedding venues, concert halls and more. And Crescat Festival for festivals, conferences and complex events.
With a wide range of popular features such as event scheduling, shift management, volunteer and crew coordination, artist booking and much more, Crescat is designed for customisation and ease-of-use.
Over 125,000 events have been planned in Crescat and with hundreds of customers of all shapes and sizes, from boutique event agencies through to international concert promoters, Crescat is rigged for success. What's more, we highly value feedback from our users and we are constantly improving our software with updates, new features and improvements.
If you plan events, run a venue or produce festivals and you're looking for ways to make your life easier, then we have a solution for you. Try our software for free or schedule a no-obligation demo with one of our product specialists today at crescat.io
UI5con 2024 - Boost Your Development Experience with UI5 Tooling ExtensionsPeter Muessig
The UI5 tooling is the development and build tooling of UI5. It is built in a modular and extensible way so that it can be easily extended by your needs. This session will showcase various tooling extensions which can boost your development experience by far so that you can really work offline, transpile your code in your project to use even newer versions of EcmaScript (than 2022 which is supported right now by the UI5 tooling), consume any npm package of your choice in your project, using different kind of proxies, and even stitching UI5 projects during development together to mimic your target environment.
Mobile App Development Company In Noida | Drona InfotechDrona Infotech
Looking for a reliable mobile app development company in Noida? Look no further than Drona Infotech. We specialize in creating customized apps for your business needs.
Visit Us For : https://www.dronainfotech.com/mobile-application-development/
DDS Security Version 1.2 was adopted in 2024. This revision strengthens support for long runnings systems adding new cryptographic algorithms, certificate revocation, and hardness against DoS attacks.