And in related news, water is wet: Suspected state-sponsored hackers and cybercriminals are trying to exploit a five-month-old vulnerability in popular mobile device management software to target a range of U.K. organizations in the local government, health, logistics and legal sectors, the British government warned Monday. Read more here.
Mindcraft….wasting more than just your time: Fake Minecraft Modpacks on Google Play deliver millions of abusive ads and make normal phone use impossible. Scammers are taking advantage of the Minecraft sandbox video game’s wild success by developing Google Play apps which appear to be Minecraft modpacks, but instead deliver abusive ads, according to researchers. Since July, Kaspersky researchers have found more than 20 of these apps and determined that they have been downloaded on more than a million Android devices. Read more here.
This.Will.Not.End.Well: Computershare co-founder Tony Wales and trucking magnate Ian Cootes are among those to have poured $100 million into an Australian-made cyber-security platform that is now being piloted after 17 years in development. Melbourne-based VeroGuard is the brainchild of Daniel Elbaum, who last century developed the world’s first wireless eftpos terminals. “Our technology is indecipherable when two switches talk to each other,” Elbaum says of the technology he patented in 2003. “There’s no known source of encryption – it’s impossible to hack.” Read more here.
