Apple Allows Users To Rogue Pop-Up Blocker In iOS 9

Apple has added a feature to iOS Safari 9 which allows users to block malicious pop-ups. IOS users for some time been the target of fraudulent pop-ups that occur as crash reports. The popups use JavaScript to ensure that they do not close on a normal way.

In the so-called crash message is called to call a specific phone number. The number of telephone scammers then ask users amounts of between 40 and 70 euros for solving the "problem". On the Apple forum in recent months dozens of topics and responses to find the people who report to see were . Users who have to deal with the pop-up to close Safari by tapping twice on the home button and then clear the browser history, as Apple on this page explains.

In iOS 9 However, it will also be possible to block pop-ups, as discovered Mac developer Rosyna Keller in the beta version of iOS 9. The Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure affirms that pop-ups with fraudulent JavaScript indeed simple be closed. All expected to appear iOS 9th September.

Cyber ​​Spies Added Linux Support To Allow Malware

A group of cyber spies who is held responsible for attacks on the Belgian government , the White House and a variety of other businesses , government agencies and institutions in Europe and the United States has developed new malware that also features Linux support.

The group is "Duke" and has been active for several years. Recently, a new instance of malware from the group discovered called "Seaduke". It is a Trojan designed to steal information and will be used against a small number of valuable objectives.According to both Symantec and Palo Alto Networks involves highly sophisticated malware.

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Finland's F-Secure analyzed the malware and also saw that the Trojan is written in Python and supports both Windows and Linux. According to the virus fighter Seaduke is the first "cross-platform" malware of the Duke group. The first thing is to use the popular scripting language Python. Earlier malware cyber spies were written in the programming languages ​​C and C ++. In addition, the Python code for both Windows and Linux proves to be developed. "We therefore suspect that the Duke group same Python code Seaduke used to attack Linux users," says researcher Artturi Lehtiö.

Lehtiö leaves in front Security.NL know that there are no attacks against Linux users in the "wild" are found. "But it is safe to assume that they have added Linux support to the use," he notes. The question remains how Linux users would be attacked.The Duke group, for example, used a funny movie monkeys to attack Windows users, which in reality was an exe file. There are PDF documents containing exploits for vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader used to infect computers with malware.

Adding Linux support to malware is not new. Earlier this year it was discovered another group of cyber spies who had done this. The group decided to use social engineering to infect Linux users. Attacked users received a rogue HTML5 plugin offered which turned out to be in reality spyware.