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The price of a cheap mobile phone may include your privacy

October 2, 2018 admin Android, Android malware, Pre-installed malware, Sophos Mobile, SophosLabs, SophosLabs Uncut, Supply chain

Credit to Author: Chen Yu| Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:00:28 +0000

Inexpensive mobile phones may be subject to “supply chain compromise,” with Trojaned third party apps. We look at a phone that shipped with factory-installed malware<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/9yo1mhq-MZc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Cryptojacking apps return to Google Play Market

September 24, 2018 admin Android, bitcoin, coinhive, Corporate, cryptocurrency, Cryptojacking, cyptominer, Google Play, malware, monero, Posts, smartphones, Sophos Mobile, SophosLabs, SophosLabs Uncut, XMR, XMRig

Credit to Author: Pankaj Kohli| Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 16:01:30 +0000

At least 25 Android apps on the official Google Play store contain code that mines cryptocurrencies in the background.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/F8aH5rlcN50″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Spearphishers tool up for attack targeting builders

July 26, 2018 admin attachment, Boulder, Colorado, malspam, PDF, phishing, SophosLabs, SophosLabs Uncut, spearphishing

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 06:01:24 +0000

A sophisticated spearphishing attack targets construction contractors in Boulder County, Colorado in the latest iteration of a months-long campaign.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/jUtfsWaE0Zc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Cos’è che fa drizzare le antenne agli esperti di mobile security?

July 16, 2018 admin Android, Corporate, iOS, SophosLabs

Credit to Author: Tiziana Carboni| Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 04:48:56 +0000

Scopriamolo insieme a Rowland Yu, Senior Threat Researcher di Sophos<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/UDTETFqTkqs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Generative adversarial networks explained

July 6, 2018 admin Corporate, data science, SophosLabs

Credit to Author: drethanrudd| Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 16:23:10 +0000

If you’ve played the game of Dictionary, you’re already familiar with the intuition behind Generative Adversarial Networks.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/mBG8jWA-bs8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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What makes a mobile threat researcher tick?

June 18, 2018 admin Android malware, Corporate, iOS, SophosLabs

Credit to Author: Editor| Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 15:34:49 +0000

We interviewed Senior Threat Researcher, Rowland Yu, to find out…<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/FeUV3849yNc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Using variational autoencoders to learn variations in data

June 15, 2018 admin Corporate, data science, machine learning, SophosLabs

Credit to Author: Editor| Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:35:30 +0000

How do we design our models to learn background context and the right kind of low-dimensional representation?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/u_DpvVG6CUE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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VPNFilter botnet: a SophosLabs analysis, part 2

May 27, 2018 admin Corporate, SophosLabs, SophosLabs Uncut

Credit to Author: Editor| Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 20:42:17 +0000

The second part of our technical investigation of the malicious components involved in the attack that infected over 500,000 routers and network storage devices.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/SP9eCcIN2-U” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>