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Black Friday: Cyber-thieves 'target Christmas shoppers'

Cyber-thieves are preparing malware and spam campaigns in a bid to catch out retailers and shoppers during the run-up to Christmas, experts say. One gang had updated the sophisticated malware it used to target tills in stores, security company iSight said. There had also been an increase in spam and phishing emails crafted to catch out people seeking bargains. And some crime groups had made fake copies of popular shopping apps in a bid to steal payment-card data. The warnings are being given just prior to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which bracket the weekend following the US Thanksgiving holiday, when many online and offline stores offer special deals. The 50 biggest retail brands in the US were now hunting through their internal corporate networks to see if they had been infected by the "highly sophisticated" Modpos malware, said iSight senior director Stephen Ward. The modular malware could lurk unseen on point-of-sale equipment, said Mr Ward, and sought t...

New Android exploit can hack any handset in one shot

Hackers have discovered a critical exploit in Chrome for Android reportedly capable of compromising virtually every version of Android running the latest Chrome. Quihoo 360 researcher Guang Gong demonstrated the vulnerability to the PSN2OWN panel at the PacSec conference in Tokyo yesterday. While the inner workings of the exploit are still largely under wraps, we do know that it leverages JavaScript v8 to gain full administrative access to the victim's phone. "The impressive thing about Guang's exploit is that it was one shot; most people these days have to exploit several vulnerabilities to get privileged access and load software without interaction," PacSec organiser Dragos Ruiu told Vulture South. "As soon as the phone accessed the website the JavaScript v8 vulnerability in Chrome was used to install an arbitrary application (in this case a BMX Bike game) without any user interaction to demonstrate complete control of the phone." Unfortunately, real-w...

Kids visit virtual reality picture gallery

The Dulwich Picture Gallery in London has become one of the first galleries in the UK to offer a virtual reality tour of its collection. The first virtual visitors were young patients at nearby King's College Hospital. The small gallery attracts 160,000 visitors a year and has one of the finest collections of old masters in the UK, including paintings by Rembrandt, Gainsborough and Canaletto. Now it has collaborated with Google to create a virtual tour using the Google Cardboard VR headset. At King's College Hospital a group of six children tried out the app at the hospital's school room, where long-term young patients have classes. They were able to look at pictures and wander through the gallery designed by Sir John Soane in the early 19th century. The young visitors were mostly enthusiastic about the experience, though several said it could not match up to a real visit to the gallery, and one said it made him feel slightly dizzy. Dulwich Picture gallery, ...

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