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Fortinet recently identified five factors that are driving these changes in the cyberthreat landscape. Each of them makes it increasingly difficult for organizations to protect their networks, data, and communications from malicious actors.

Security researchers have identified more and more Mac OS malware attacks over the past two years. In June 2017, Rommel Joven and Wayne Chin Yick Low from Fortinet’s Fortiguard Labs found and analyzed a new ransomware targeted at Mac OS.  Most malware for Mac OS was developed in the Objective-C programming language. A good introduction to reverse engineering Cocoa applications can be found here. In that blog post, the researcher released an IDAPython script named objc2_xrefs_helper.py  that can only be executed in IDA Pro. As you…

BankBot is a family of Trojan malware targeting Android devices that surfaced in the second half of 2016. The main goal of this malware is to steal banking credentials from the victim’s device. It usually impersonates flash player updaters, android system tools, or other legitimate applications. Once installed, it hides itself and then tricks the user into typing his or her credentials into fake bank web pages that have been injected onto the device’s screen.

Credit to Author: Kai Lu| Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:49:00 +0000

ToorCon 19 San Diego was held Monday August 28th to Sunday September 3rd, 2017 at The Westin San Diego. It included three parts. The first was training workshops focused on various aspects of computer security. These took place on Aug 28-31. The second was a Seminar held on Sep 1. The third part was the formal Conference that ran from Sep 1-3. I was honored to be able to present my research, Dig Deep into FlexiSpy for Android at ToorCon 19. FlexiSpy for Android is a spy app with full IM tracking, VoIP call recording, and live call interception….