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Google on Monday revealed that almost 200,000 app submissions to its Play Store for Android were either rejected or remediated to address issues with access to sensitive data such as location or SMS messages over the past year. The tech giant also said it blocked 333,000 bad accounts from the app storefront in 2023 for […]
Fake browser updates are being used to push a previously undocumented Android malware called Brokewell. “Brokewell is a typical modern banking malware equipped with both data-stealing and remote-control capabilities built into the malware,” Dutch security firm ThreatFabric said in an analysis published Thursday. The malware is said to be in active development, adding new commands […]
Researchers have identified a dependency confusion vulnerability impacting an archived Apache project called Cordova App Harness. Dependency confusion attacks take place owing to the fact that package managers check the public repositories before private registries, thus allowing a threat actor to publish a malicious package with the same name to a public package repository. This […]
The Android banking trojan known as Vultur has resurfaced with a suite of new features and improved anti-analysis and detection evasion techniques, enabling its operators to remotely interact with a mobile device and harvest sensitive data. “Vultur has also started masquerading more of its malicious activity by encrypting its C2 communication, using multiple encrypted payloads […]
Unpatched software is a computer code containing known security weaknesses. Unpatched vulnerabilities refer to weaknesses that allow attackers to leverage a known security bug that has not been patched by running malicious code. Software vendors write additions to the codes, known as “patches,” when they come to know about these application vulnerabilities to secure these […]
According to a report by MarketsandMarkets, “The application security Testing market is expected to grow from USD 2.79 Billion in 2017 to USD 9.0 Billion by 2022, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 26.4%. Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) vertical are expected to have the largest market size by the end of […]
Web application security specialists reported the finding of a database that stored tens of millions of user registers from several different dating apps. It is still unknown which individual or company operated this database. Jeremiah Fowler, a web application security expert, recently reported the database, mentioning that it was fully exposed, because it did not […]
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