Hook Android Trojan Now Delivers Ransomware-Style Attacks
New features to take over smartphones and monitor user activity demonstrate the continued evolution of the malware, which is now being spread on GitHub.
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New features to take over smartphones and monitor user activity demonstrate the continued evolution of the malware, which is now being spread on GitHub.
Cybercriminals in China have figured out how to undermine the strengths of mobile messaging protocols.
Both Android devices and iPhones are 3.5 times more likely to be infected with malware once "broken" and 250 times more likely to be totally compromised, recent research shows.
Law enforcement across mainland China have been using EagleMsgSpy surveillance tool to collect mobile device data since at least 2017, new research shows.
The notorious spyware from Israel's NSO Group has been found targeting journalists, government officials, and corporate executives in multiple variants discovered in a threat scan of 3,500 mobile phones.
The number of memory bugs in Android declined sharply after Google began transitioning to Rust for new features in its mobile OS.
Manipulated header info within files, in mobile Trojans like TeaBot and others, makes it difficult for defenders to analyze and detect them.
The dangerous Anatsa banking Trojan is among the malware being spread to Android users via decoy mobile apps in recent months.
A more sophisticated version of a "work in progress" malware is impersonating a Google Chrome app to attack a wider swath of mobile users.
If you are in the market for a smartphone but want to break away from the Apple-Google duopoly, look no further: these alternative smartphones are based on various Linux variants and custom hardware.
A spoofed version of an Israeli rocket-attack alerting app is targeting Android devices, in a campaign that shows how cyber-espionage attacks are shifting to individual, everyday citizens.
Nation-states see the opportunity in targeting people directly through their mobile phones, in this case with sophisticated Android surveillanceware.
The number of malware samples is up as attackers aim to compromise users where they work and play: Their smartphones.
New capability streamlines automated testing of cybersecurity and anti-fraud features in android and iOS apps in virtual and cloud testing suites.
"Nexus" is the latest in a vast and growing array of Trojans targeting mobile banking and cryptocurrency applications.
The new malware was discovered targeting three banks in Brazil.
Devices running Android 12 and below are at risk of attackers downloading apps that direct users to a malicious domain.
Some 400 mobile apps have posed as legitimate software on Google Play and the Apple App Store over the past year, and were designed to steal Facebook user credentials.
A novel mobile malware found lurking behind a phone-spoofing app is being distributed via Telegram and a dedicated website, in a broad operation to monitor corporate victims.
Thousands of corporate mobile apps developed by businesses for use by their customers contain hardcoded AWS tokens that can be easily extracted and used to access the full run of corporate data stored in cloud buckets.