Some URL shortener services distribute Android malware, including banking or SMS trojans
On iOS we have seen link shortener services pushing spam calendar files to victims’ devices.
On iOS we have seen link shortener services pushing spam calendar files to victims’ devices.
Authorities in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo announced the arrest of multiple individuals identified as members of a gang dedicated to stealing and hacking iPhone devices in order to access victims’ online banking accounts and steal all their money. Authorities consider this to be a highly sophisticated criminal group, capable of bypassing the complex […]
Spanish law enforcement agencies on Wednesday arrested 16 individuals belonging to a criminal network in connection with operating two banking trojans as part of a social engineering campaign targeting financial institutions in Europe. The arrests were made in Ribeira (A Coruña), Madrid, Parla and Móstoles (Madrid), Seseña (Toledo), Villafranca de los barros (Badajoz), and Aranda […]
A new cybercriminal campaign is hitting the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a group dedicated to stealing iPhone devices in order to access victims’ bank accounts and steal as much money as possible. A report published in the local newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo states that this trend began during coronavirus confinement, although it […]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday charged a Latvian woman for her alleged role as a programmer in a cybercrime gang that helped develop TrickBot malware. The woman in question, Alla Witte, aka Max, 55, who resided in Paramaribo, Suriname, was arrested in Miami, Florida on February 6. Witte has been charged with […]
A new banking trojan has been discovered recently by the security experts at Kaspersky, and it has been dubbed as “Bizarro,” and this new trojan steals credentials from customers of 70 banks in Europe and South America. Bizarro is a family of Trojans that is originating in Brazil, and it has already attacked banking entities […]
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Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed a new Android trojan that hijacks users’ credentials and SMS messages to facilitate fraudulent activities against banks in Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Called “TeaBot” (or Anatsa), the malware is said to be in its early stages of development, with malicious attacks targeting financial apps commencing in late […]
Attention, Android users! A banking malware capable of stealing sensitive information is “spreading rapidly” across Europe, with the U.S. likely to be the next target. According to a new analysis by Proofpoint, the threat actors behind FluBot (aka Cabassous) have branched out beyond Spain to target the U.K., Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Poland. The English-language […]
Nowadays the use of QR codes has increased swiftly, as we all know that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought many remarkable changes among peoples. Because of this pandemic situation, people are using mobile quick-response (QR) codes in daily life, these QR codes are very handy for both work and personal use. After the declaration of […]
Cybersecurity experts at Trend Micro have recently found a new malicious campaign, through which threat actors can trap or infect its victims with its several sophisticated payloads. This new malicious campaign is entitled as “Operation Overtrap,” and analysts have asserted that the attackers are using the three-pronged attack in this campaign. In this campaign, they […]
ESET Research uncovers a new threat that targets organizations operating in various sectors in Brazil
A security report prepared by Sophos’s researchers mentions that the cybercriminal community has found a way to abuse search engine optimization (SEO) methods in order to deploy malware to as many victims as possible in a single attack. According to experts, this method of “deoptimization” includes SEO techniques and social engineering in order to place […]
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Watch out for attacks attempting to take advantage of the lockdown-induced surge in mobile banking use
There are currently multiple variants of malware for mobile devices used for different purposes. Digital forensics experts mention that, during the most recent months, an infection campaign has been detected against devices with Android operating system that uses malware to infiltrate the victims’ mobile banking app and extract their assets. In its report, the security […]
Dubbed Ginp; the trojan keeps coming back with new capabilities. Researchers at ThreatFabric, the cybersecurity firm based in Amsterdam, have been following an “interesting new strain of banking malware” dubbed Ginp distributed as Adobe Flash Player. Identified firstly by Kaspersky’s Android malware analyst Tatyana Shishkova in late October; Ginp is currently targeting users in the […]
A Russian hacker who created and used Neverquest banking malware to steal money from victims’ bank accounts has finally been sentenced to 4 years in prison by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov, 34, was arrested by Spanish authorities at Barcelona–El Prat Airport in January 2017 […]
Researchers uncovered a new form of sophisticated Android banking malware named “Ginp” targets Android users via screen overlay attack to steal banking credentials, SMS & credit/debit card details to empty victims’ bank account. The Ginp malware initially spotted at the end of the Oct 2019 since then the malware is continuously under development, and 5 […]
Gustuff banking malware returns with new features, the threat actors behind Gustuff malware made changes with distribution hosts and disabled C2 infrastructure. The malware uses SMS messages for propagation. The Gustuff malware is a fully automated one, the malware is capable of stealing login credentials by abusing Accessibility Services in Android devices. Researchers observed that […]
Continuing its legacy of producing budget smartphones for billions of people in India, Xiaomi has launched new smartphones in its Redmi 8 series — the Redmi Note 8 Pro and the Redmi Note 8. Both smartphones are feature-rich and try to keep Xiaomi’s name in the budget price bracket high. During the launch event, I […]