IoT

Researchers Piers O'Hanlon and Ravishankar Borgaojkar from Oxford University expose two new IMSI-based catchers which allow for tracking and interception of data from most major smartphones.

Researchers at Invincea Labs detected two zero-days affecting Android phones. The firmware has since been updated but the research illustrates potential vulnerabilities in IoT devices.

After studying and decrypting Linux/Moose botnet's proxy traffic over six months, GoSecure determined that the vast majority of its fraudulent traffic - 86 percent - was directed at Instagram, while another eight percent targeted Twitter.

An engineer released a proof-of-concept of a worm that would automatically change default passwords of insecure IoT devices.

Kaspersky Lab researchers spotted an increase in DDoS botnets in Western Europe as attackers grow more sophisticated.

An researcher spotted threat actors actively updating and customizing the Mirai botnet source code that was leaked less than two weeks ago.

The latest data from BullGuard suggests the recent Mirai-based DDoS attack could be just the tip of the iceberg.