Internet User Security Office (OSI) National Cyber Security Institute (INCIBE) Spanish alerted a security flaw that could cause damage to the mobile phone using a content Video manipulated.
The precise INCIBE through a statement quoted by the agency Efe that the vulnerability affects the service MediaServer Android uses to index multimedia files on the device.
This occurs when you try to index a file format Matroska (usually .MKV extension) that manipulated maliciously cause a problem the memory block that service and, with it, the whole system.
The INCIBE reports that an active campaign of fraudulent emails, using social engineering, are identified by passing by company Movistar for the user to download and execute a malicious file without being aware of it.
On this occasion, the pretext used for users to download malware on their computers is not a supposed “paperless billing: their latest bills are already available,” but use subjects like “update data”, “update” and “thank you for updating your email address,” among others, to make them believe that the company Movistar need to be sent by private message the email address and phone number.
also detected a new campaign of fraudulent emails (phishing) which are passed by the company Virgin Money order capture “mules” and collect personal information from users.
The work offered in these emails are for private banking services, and the process is to receive in your checking account transfers “ payments customers “, really, is the money they steal from other users.
That money will have to cash out, and through remittance companies do not register the origin or destination send it to the “central” they really are cybercriminals.
The “mules” are “necessary collaborators for the commission of a crime” at least of fraud and money laundering.
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