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A threat actor known for striking targets in the Middle East has evolved its Android spyware yet again with enhanced capabilities that allow it to be stealthier and more persistent while passing off as seemingly innocuous app updates to stay under the radar. The new variants have “incorporated new features into their malicious apps that […]
The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday added four companies, including Israel-based spyware companies NSO Group and Candiru, to a list of entities engaging in “malicious cyber activities.” The agency said the two companies were added to the list based on evidence that “these entities developed and supplied spyware to foreign governments that used these tools […]
A prominent Togolese human rights defender has been targeted with spyware by a threat actor known for striking victims in South Asia, marking the hacking group’s first foray into digital surveillance in Africa. Amnesty International tied the covert attack campaign to a collective tracked as “Donot Team” (aka APT-C-35), which has been linked to cyber […]
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, […]
Researchers discovered a new malicious campaign that delivered Different payloads such as Agent Tesla spyware and Ave Maria RAT To steal username and password and log keystroke from various Windows applications. Researchers believed that these versions of that turn spyware to RAT might be used to deploy more lucrative and destructive ransomware and powerful payload […]
Researchers discovered a new trojan Masad Stealer to deliver the powerful spyware on the targeted systems and exfiltrate the stolen data via Telegram. Masad Stealer using Telegram as a command and control channel to maintain the anonymity and hide the malware communication traffic. Recent pas, several hacking groups are abusing the Telegram and used it […]
The Simjacker vulnerability could extend to over 1 billion mobile phone users globally. As time passes, we’re witnessing more exploits building upon the usage of sim cards including the ever-famous sim swapping method. To add to these, just recently, AdaptiveMobile Security had released details of a previously undiscovered exploit dubbing it as SimJacking. How it […]
Researchers discovered an open-source spyware AhMyth associated with Google play store app called RB Music to intrude the Android users device to steal various sensitive information. RB Music also know as Radio Balouch, a malicious streaming radio based Android app appeared in Google play store borrowed malicious features and functionality from AhMyth to infect the Android users […]
Researchers discovered a new wave of a phishing campaign that bypassing the Microsoft APT protection and delivery the Adwind malware via weaponized PDF file to attack utilities Industry network. Adwind, a.k.a Unrecom, Sockrat, JSocket, and jRat is a cross-platform RAT that distributed via malware-as-a-service in underground markets where users can purchase and utilize to target […]
Information security audit specialists have reported the existence of a spyware developed by a hacking group for hire that has exploited vulnerability in WhatsApp, the most popular instant messaging service in the world, to remotely kidnap dozens of smartphones. In a statement published by the company it is only mentioned that the attackers are “a […]
The embattled Facebook is facing another huge setback this week, as their acquired iOS/Android app, WhatsApp is affected by a spy-like trojan on some version of the app available for download. The social media giant categorizes the issue as a “spyware” that was embedded to some variants of WhatsApp inserted by threat actors as they […]
A phishing campaign in which Ukraine government agencies are targeted with the RatVermin malware has been uncovered. Security researchers working with FireEye Threat Intelligence have uncovered this ongoing spear phishing campaign that has been targeting the Ukraine government and military with emails that aim to distribute the RatVermin malware, which helps malicious actors in info-gathering […]
Security researchers at Kaspersky uncovered a new highly sophisticated APT malware Framework dubbed TajMahal which includes a number of malicious modules capable of performing various attacks. The operation has gone undetected for the last five years, the timestamp of the first sample is from August 2013 and the last one is April 2018. It contains […]
Vulnerability testing specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) reported the finding of a modular and adaptable software variant with a wide variety of features designed to perform various cyber spying tasks. A group of researchers from a cybersecurity firm discovered this spyware, stating that the entire framework comprises not only the intrinsic […]
Threat actors tainted the popular Android app within Google play with more than 50 million installs to deliver the Triout Android malware. The popular app package “com.psiphon3” that known for providing uncensored access to Internet content was abused by attackers and they repack it with spyware framework. Security researchers from Bitdefender found the new tainted […]
Threat actors misuse the popularity of the TeamViewer Tool and utilizing it to drop the malware on victim devices that steal sensitive data. Teamviewer is the most popular tool used for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers. A Security researcher who goes by name FewAtoms spotted a malicious […]
TeamViewer is a popular remote control desktop sharing software with more than 1 billion users and that makes it a lucrative target for cyber criminals. Recently, the IT security researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a malware campaign targeting unsuspecting users with a malicious version of TeamViewer. Note: It is worth mentioning that the official website […]
Ryuk first appeared in August 2018, and while not incredibly active across the globe, at least three organizations were hit with Ryuk infections over the course of the first two months of its operations, landing the attackers about $640,000 in ransom for their efforts. According to CrowdStrike analysis from late last week, Grim Spider has […]
Cyber Criminals from TA505 group started a new campaign that targeting retail, grocery, and restaurant chains by distributing weaponized MS word documents. TA505 group already had a record of distributing biggest threat campaign Dridex and widely distributing Locky ransomware that affected millions of computers around the world. Currently distributed tens of thousands of messages to various country […]
In 2015, Beijing based laptop manufacturer and seemingly reliable technology company Lenovo made headlines that its 750,000 laptops had pre-installed adware called VisualDiscovery developed by Superfish. The adware played a vital role in compromising online security protections installed by the users on their laptops, accessed financial data and performed man-in-the-middle attack on private and secure connections […]
A security researcher from ESET has announced that he has unearthed new Android-based spyware that is capable of accessing the Whatsapp database and features a host of surveillance features. As reported by ZDNet, the spyware has been discovered on Github in a repository named “OwnMe.” It features a MainActivity.class that initiates a new service OwnMe.class, […]