{"id":5527,"date":"2012-08-08T21:30:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T02:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5527"},"modified":"2012-08-09T02:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T07:02:00","slug":"researchers-identify-four-blackberry-zitmo-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5527","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Identify Four BlackBerry Zitmo Variants"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Zitmo refers to a version of the Zeus malware that specifically targets mobile devices. Previous Zitmos variants masqueraded as banking security applications or security add-ons to circumvent out-of-band authentication systems used by some financial institutions by intercepting one-time passwords sent via text message and forwarding it to a another cell number that acted as a command-and-control device.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/researchers-identify-four-blackberry-zitmo-variants\">Researchers Identify Four BlackBerry Zitmo Variants | SecurityWeek.Com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Collaborating on research is important because the vulnerability doesn&#8217;t have to be within BlackBerry&#8217;s code to compromise the platform, Stone noted. For example, researchers exploited issues in the open source browser engine Webkit to hack a BlackBerry last year&#8217;s CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest. It&#8217;s about &#8220;protecting the ecosystem,&#8221; as one vulnerability identified in one platform can easily exist in another platform, Stone said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zitmo refers to a version of the Zeus malware that specifically targets mobile devices. Previous Zitmos variants masqueraded as banking security applications or security add-ons to circumvent out-of-band authentication systems used by some financial institutions by intercepting one-time passwords sent &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5527\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[347,227,550,698],"class_list":["post-5527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-malware","tag-mobile","tag-rim","tag-security-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5540,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}