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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.
The malware, first discovered in 2016, has been updated over the years, and the latest version is now hiding in the firmware of counterfeit mobile phones.
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.
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.
Mobile malware-as-a-service operators are upping their game by automatically churning out hundreds of unique samples on a whim.
A more sophisticated version of a "work in progress" malware is impersonating a Google Chrome app to attack a wider swath of mobile users.
The Israeli company developed highly-targeted, mobile malware that would make any APT jealous.
The number of malware samples is up as attackers aim to compromise users where they work and play: Their smartphones.
The mobile phone and MacBook giant also rejected nearly 1.7 million app submissions last year in an effort to root out malware and fraud.
A novel credential harvester compromises SMTP services to steal data from a range of hosted services and providers, and can also launch SMS-based spam attacks against devices using US mobile carriers.
"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.
Mobile malware developers were busy bees in 2022, flooding the cybercrime landscape with twice the number of banking trojans than the year before.
Money-lending apps built using the Flutter software development kit hide a predatory spyware threat and highlight a growing trend of using personal data for blackmail.
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.
Security researchers have described the malware as among the fastest-spreading mobile threats in recent years.
Mobile attacks have been going on for many years, but the threat is rapidly evolving as more sophisticated malware families with novel features enter the scene.
A new report shows an explosion of zero-day attacks and malware focused on mobile devices just as companies adopted widespread bring-your-own device policies.
The advent of so-called "dropper" apps, which deliver and install malware that can also be later updated, is an emerging threat vector for mobile users.