Did Cybercriminals use Snapchat Breach Data?
The US Federal Trade Commission settled its complaint against Snapchat on Thursday this week. The complaint accused the company of failures to protect and secure its users data along with other...
View ArticleAttacking the CASL
As the deadline for compliance with Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) looms, prohibiting the distribution of unsolicited commercial messages, AdaptiveMobile investigated the amount of blocked SMS...
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Selfmite: Attack using SMS worm to increase pay-per-install income
SMS worms for Android smartphones don’t appear very often. The vast majority of Android malware that has been discovered to date can be treated as trojans. But it doesn’t mean that other types of...
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Spammers’ SMS Boom Focused on the Indian Real Estate Syndrome
The Indian Consumer has always focused on three major investment havens: Stock Market, Real Estate and Gold. The Indian General Elections 2014 has given a much needed fillip to the Indian Stock...
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Bit.ly warns against Glide Appspam
Note: This blog has been updated with information reflecting new activity, please scroll down to the end to see latest developments Its been a few months since we released our report on appspam and...
View ArticleIn mobile operators we trust
Today, in partnership with telecoms and technology analyst Ovum, we have announced the results of a global enterprise mobility survey. The survey threw up some surprises and confirmed a few things we...
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How to shift that Stubborn Snapchat Spam
It's been reported that there has been another wave of Snapchat spam messages being sent. Like the attack which we covered in January, users are reporting that they've received a new wave of weightloss...
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SMS Phishing Spam and JPMorgan Chase Breach
On Thursday, 2th of October JPMorgan Chase gave further details of the data breach it first reported to have occurred in mid-August. The latest estimates as they reported in their SEC filing , are that...
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Take Two: Selfmite.b Hits the Road
In the end of June we reported about a new SMS worm dubbed Selfmite. Fortunately the number of infections at the time was not large due to the fast actions that we took including a notification to...
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Selfmite.b: Follow-up and Update
On the 8th of October we published information about the new version of the Selfmite SMS worm we detected – Selfmite.b. We think that it is necessary to update our readers with a few additional facts...
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Koler ‘Police’ Ransomware Gets its Worm On
Over the last 24 hours we have seen a new variant of the Android ransomware known as Koler become active in the United States. Koler is a piece of malware that blackmails users of infected phones by...
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AdaptiveMobile presented with Network Management Excellence accolade at the...
AdaptiveMobile is delighted that it has been presented with the first ever ‘Network Management Excellence’ award at the Telecoms.com Awards 2014. AdaptiveMobile was recognised for its distinguished...
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Taking up the Gauntlet: SS7 Attacks
There have been several recent reports in the media on the results of new research into SS7 network. This interesting research outlines a series of techniques potential attackers can use to listen in...
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Singapore SMS Worm Goes International
Over the last 24 hours we have detected a new version of the SMS Worm for Android that was detected and warned above by Singapore's Computer Emergency Response Team (SingCERT). Once it was reported by...
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HeadsUp for WhatsApp
OTT messaging apps are big business. At the very start of 2015, the world’s biggest messaging app, WhatsApp, announced they were handling up to 30 billion messages a day. This is an impressive figure...
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Worm.Gazon: Want Gift Card? Get Malware
There is a Chinese proverb: 'A small spark can burn across a prairie'. It also applies to the malware world. A simple piece of malware is on the way to become one of the 'spammiest' mobile malware...
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Attack on the iPhones
Over the past 18 hours, we have seen a new form of SMS messaging attack that immediately crashes your iPhone, iPad or iPod upon opening the message. The message comes as a specific string of Arabic...
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The Cyber Attacker in You
The recent “Unicode of Death” has taken over websites, news outlets, and newsfeeds this past week. In a matter of hours, the Apple bug was sent to hundreds of thousands of people, effectively disabling...
View ArticleAdaptiveMobile Recognised as a Gartner Cool Vendor in Communications Service...
AdaptiveMobile is delighted to announce that it has been recognised as a 2015 ‘Cool Vendor’ in this year’s Gartner Cool Vendor in Communications Service Provider, Security Report. The formal...
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Points for consistency, but not for originality
Is fearr cosaint cliste ná ‘spam’ bhriste The use of over-the-top (OTT) messaging services has grown exponentially over the past few years. New data from mobile research specialists, Juniper Research,...
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