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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 […]
Are you planning to create an app for your business? If yes, you are in the right place! A smartphone app is one of the critical elements of any business’ marketing strategy. It helps various businesses establish better relationships with their users. An app can help you stay in touch with your clients all the […]
HosTaGe is a lightweight, low-interaction, portable, and generic honeypot for mobile devices that aims on the detection of malicious, wireless network environments. As most malware propagate over the network via specific protocols, a low-interaction honeypot located at a mobile device can check wireless networks for actively propagating malware. We envision such honeypots running on […]
The malware is also capable of controlling the device’s front and back camera to take photos periodically. The IT security researchers at Zimperium have discovered an Android malware capable of stealing sensitive data from infected devices and transfer it on servers controlled by the attackers. The malware is disguised in an app called “System Update” […]
Cybersecurity researchers at Trend Micro and McAfee have separately published reports to alert users about a new set of fake and malware-infected Android applications on the Google Play Store. These malicious apps can carry out billing fraud by hijacking SMS message notifications. According to researchers, users in the Arabian Peninsula and Southwest Asia are the […]
Hackers used malware to hack Android devices to create an Android ad fraud botnet called ‘Pareto’ that mimicked millions of connected TV products to generate fake ad views. Cybersecurity firm Human Security, previously White Ops, has uncovered and disrupted a highly sophisticated botnet-based fraud operation in which hackers managed to infect over one million Android […]
Research reveals startling new findings on Android data collection and how it sends 2-times more data to Google than iOS to Apple – Google has rejected the study. It’s a widely known fact that both iOS and Android devices send handset data to Apple or Google continuously, including location, local network details, phone number, etc. […]
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 […]
Umbrella is an Android mobile app developed by Security First that provides human rights defenders with the information on what to do in any given security situation and the tools to do it. It allows the user to choose what they want to do, such as: protect data; securely make a call/email; securely access […]
A hacking group known for its attacks in the Middle East, at least since 2017, has recently been found impersonating legitimate messaging apps such as Telegram and Threema to infect Android devices with a new, previously undocumented malware. “Compared to the versions documented in 2017, Android/SpyC23.A has extended spying functionality, including reading notifications from messaging […]
A group of vulnerability testing specialists from the University of New Mexico, made up of William J. Tolley, Beau Kujath and Jedidiah R. Crandall, just reported a vulnerability present in most of Linux distributions and other operative systems that, if exploited, would allow threat actors to discover whether another user is connected to a VPN, […]
The amount of RAM your smartphone has can play a very crucial role in its overall performance. There was a time when a meager 1GB of memory on an Android seemed like a big deal. But now, we have got devices with up to 12GB RAM out of the box. For comparison, the laptop I […]
Android 10 is up and running on more smartphones than last year’s score of Pie. But as it happens always, news and rumors about the next major Android version (which is Android R or Android 11 as Google would call it) have started to show up already. If things go as per the usual schedule, […]
Newly discovered Android vulnerability dubbed “StrandHogg” being exploited in wide by unknown hackers using weaponized malware apps that posed as a legitimate one to perform various malicious activities. The vulnerability allows attackers to infect the Android phone without root access, and it affects all the android version including Android 10. Researchers confirmed that 36 malicious […]
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new unpatched vulnerability in the Android operating system that dozens of malicious mobile apps are already exploiting in the wild to steal users’ banking and other login credentials and spy on their activities. Dubbed Strandhogg, the vulnerability resides in the multitasking feature of Android that can be exploited by a […]
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 […]
Researchers discovered a new wave of spyware apps named Stalkerware emerging in wide for the past few months that spies victims’ online activities and steal sensitive data from the infected devices. Recently FTC warned that Retina-X developed and sold MobileSpy, PhoneSheriff and TeenShield shared sensitive information about your smartphone activities – such as call history, […]
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 […]
Vivo is among the companies such as Realme and Samsung that are trying to make their mark in the budget smartphone region to dethrone Xiaomi. The Chinese company has been making budget smartphones to cater to the Indian audience and its most recent one is the Vivo U10 – a part of its new U […]
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 […]
The same flaw lets attackers extract GPS data. A few days ago, HackRead shared a video and reported that the Facebook app was using the camera feature on certain versions of iOS without the user’s permission. Now, it has been discovered that a vulnerability in Google and Samsung’s Camera apps on Android enabled other apps […]