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Several New Play Store Apps Spotted Distributing Joker, Facestealer and Coper Malware

Google has taken steps to ax dozens of fraudulent apps from the official Play Store that were spotted propagating Joker, Facestealer, and...

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Vulnerabilities

Amazon Quietly Patches ‘High Severity’ Vulnerability in Android Photos App

Amazon, in December 2021, patched a high severity vulnerability affecting its Photos app for Android that could have been exploited to steal...

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Vulnerabilities

New UnRAR Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Hack Zimbra Webmail Servers

A new security vulnerability has been disclosed in RARlab’s UnRAR utility that, if successfully exploited, could permit a remote attacker to execute...

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Malware

New Android Banking Trojan ‘Revive’ Targeting Users of Spanish Financial Services

A previously unknown Android banking trojan has been discovered in the wild, targeting users of the Spanish financial services company BBVA. Said...

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Malware

Google Says ISPs Helped Attackers Infect Targeted Smartphones with Hermit Spyware

A week after it emerged that a sophisticated mobile spyware dubbed Hermit was used by the government of Kazakhstan within its borders,...

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Malware

BRATA Android Malware Gains Advanced Mobile Threat Capabilities

The operators behind BRATA have once again added more capabilities to the Android mobile malware in an attempt to make their attacks...

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Malware

Researchers Uncover ‘Hermit’ Android Spyware Used in Kazakhstan, Syria, and Italy

An enterprise-grade surveillanceware dubbed Hermit has been put to use by entities operating from within Kazakhstan, Syria, and Italy over the years...

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Malware

MaliBot: A New Android Banking Trojan Spotted in the Wild

A new strain of Android malware has been spotted in the wild targeting online banking and cryptocurrency wallet customers in Spain and...

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Malware

Chinese Hackers Distribute Backdoored Web3 Wallets for iOS and Android Users

A technically sophisticated threat actor known as SeaFlower has been targeting Android and iOS users as part of an extensive campaign that...

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Malware

Latest Mobile Malware Report Suggests On-Device Fraud is on the Rise

An analysis of the mobile threat landscape in 2022 shows that Spain and Turkey are the most targeted countries for malware campaigns,...

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Malware

Cytrox’s Predator Spyware Targeted Android Users with Zero-Day Exploits

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on Thursday pointed fingers at a North Macedonian spyware developer named Cytrox for developing exploits against five...

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Malware

Over 200 Apps on Play Store Caught Spying on Android Users Using Facestealer

More than 200 Android apps masquerading as fitness, photo editing, and puzzle apps have been observed distributing spyware called Facestealer to siphon...

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Vulnerabilities

Google Releases Android Update to Patch Actively Exploited Vulnerability

Google has released monthly security patches for Android with fixes for 37 flaws across different components, one of which is a fix...

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Vulnerabilities

Critical Android Bug Let Attackers to Access Users’ Media and Audio Conversations

The audio decoders in Qualcomm and MediaTek chips have been reported to contain three security vulnerabilities. Leaving unpatched three of these security...

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Malware

New Octo Banking Trojan Spreading via Fake Apps on Google Play Store

A number of rogue Android apps that have been cumulatively installed from the official Google Play Store more than 50,000 times are...

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Cyber Attack

Hamas-linked Hackers Targeting High-Ranking Israelis Using ‘Catfish’ Lures

A threat actor with affiliations to the cyber warfare division of Hamas has been linked to an “elaborate campaign” targeting high-profile Israeli...

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Malware

SharkBot Banking Trojan Resurfaces On Google Play Store Hidden Behind 7 New Apps

As many as seven malicious Android apps discovered on the Google Play Store masqueraded as antivirus solutions to deploy a banking trojan...

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Malware

Hackers Distributing Fake Shopping Apps to Steal Banking Data of Malaysian Users

Threat actors have been distributing malicious applications under the guise of seemingly harmless shopping apps to target customers of eight Malaysian banks...

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Malware

‘CryptoRom’ Crypto Scam Abusing iPhone Features to Target Mobile Users

Social engineering attacks leveraging a combination of romantic lures and cryptocurrency fraud have been luring unsuspecting victims into installing fake apps by...