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Signal and Telegram users: spy on fake apps from China 
September 17, 2023
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Signal and Telegram users: Spying on fake apps from China - Image by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay

Chinese hackers are accessing personal user data using fake messenger apps. This includes message content, contact details and call logs. Particularly perfidious: The two bugs disguised as legitimate apps were available via the official app stores Google Play and Samsung Galaxy Store. The applications are still available from the Korean manufacturer. By May 2023, the hackers targeted thousands of users around the world. A main target is Germany. The team led by ESET researcher Lukas Stefanko has discovered the two apps “Signal Plus Messenger” and “FlyGram”, which prove to be legitimate signal...

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Pig butchering scam with AI support
August 19, 2023
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AI-assisted pig butchering scam - photo by Braňo on Unsplash

CryptoRom scammers are adding AI chat tools like ChatGPT and invented crypto account hacks to their toolbox. In its new report, Sophos explains the "pig butchering" scam. In addition, seven new fake apps for crypto investments have been successfully smuggled into the official stores. Sophos today released new findings on CryptoRom scams. This is a subset of so-called “pig butchering” (shā zhū pán) scams designed to trick dating app users into investing in fake cryptocurrency funds. AI Tools Refine Attack Techniques The report released today, “Sha Zhu Pan Scam Uses ChatGPT to Target…

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ChatGPT Fake Apps: Expensive subscriptions for zero features
24 May 2023
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A Sophos report uncovers the rip-off through expensive ChatGPT imitations: The fraud apps continue to thrive due to gaps in the app store guidelines from the current interest in the latest version of the AI-supported language model and benefit with sometimes horrendous subscriptions. Fees . Sophos X-Ops has uncovered various apps on the official Apple and Google stores posing as legitimate ChatGPT-based chatbots, scamming users with obfuscated, often extortionate, fees, and raking in thousands of dollars a month for scammers. Fleeceware: Expensive apps with tons of advertising The report “FleeceGPT Mobile Apps Target…

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Mobile Security Report: 2 new malware apps every minute 
March 19, 2023
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Mobile Security Report: 2 new malware apps every minute

Android smartphone owners are at high cyber risk. Mobile Security: Although the attacks are fewer, they are much better executed. Two malicious apps per minute threatened Android users in the past year. There is no end in sight. When it comes to Android malware, cybercriminals are currently looking for quality over quantity. The current Mobile Security Report from G DATA CyberDefense shows that the downward trend of the first half of 2022 continued in the second half of the year. In the past year, attackers only published two to three apps with malware every minute. In the year…

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Malware in business apps spies on Facebook accounts
14 October 2022
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According to Facebook, or rather its parent company Meta, it has found over 400 malware-infected Android and iOS apps in the Google and Apple stores. The apps should tap and forward Facebook access data. Interesting: Meta also found many malicious business or ad management apps. This year, Meta security researchers found more than 400 malicious Android and iOS apps designed to steal Facebook credentials and compromise people's accounts. These apps were listed in the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store and classified as games, VPN services, business apps...

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Infected apps in Google Play Store 
September 24, 2022
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Actually, Google checks its apps in the Google Play Store with its own scan service Google Protect, which also automatically checks the apps for malware on every Android device. Kaspersky proves that this does not always work: 190 infected apps were distributed 4,8 million times. They spread the Harly Trojan, which can also quickly end up on a company cell phone. Kaspersky cybersecurity experts have identified a malicious campaign on the Google Play Store with a total of more than 4,8 million downloads of infected applications. In the past two years, cybercriminals have impersonated more than 190 legitimate applications there...

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Enterprise Android apps under test
August 27, 2022
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Europe's largest testing laboratory for antivirus products has examined Android security apps for companies and for individual mobile devices. Its use is recommended, as manufacturers such as ESET or Bitdefender keep finding infected apps in the Google Play Store - despite Google Play Protect. All apps and services were examined in July and August 2022 in realistic tests in the areas of protection, speed (performance), usability (usability) and other functions (features). Some of the apps for companies can be managed within a manufacturer's protection solution or via mobile device management. The laboratory…

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Test: protection for mobile Android devices
July 15, 2022
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The AV-TEST Institute tested 21 security solutions for Android in May and June 2022. The lab examined both enterprise endpoint apps and consumer apps. In addition, the laboratory examined the performance of the standard protection Google Play Protect. All Android apps and services were examined in realistic tests in the areas of protection, speed (performance), usability (usability) and other functions (features). The lab divided the tests into enterprise and consumer products. The laboratory awards up to 6 points for each of the three test areas. The best products can…

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Cloud apps ship two-thirds of malware downloads
21 January 2022
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Google Drive takes over the top spot for malware downloads from Microsoft OneDrive. More than two-thirds of malware downloads came from cloud apps in 2021. Malicious Office documents almost double in size. More than two-thirds of malware downloads in 2021 will come from cloud apps. Google Drive was identified as the app with the most malware downloads, replacing Microsoft OneDrive. In addition, the proportion of malicious Office documents in malware downloads doubled from 19 to 37 percent in the past year. The Netskope Threat Labs came to these conclusions in their current report Cloud and…

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The risk of malware increases - especially in the cloud
August 15, 2021
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The risk of malware increases - especially in the cloud

The malware threat continues to grow. Two security risks that should not be underestimated are Office documents and cloud applications, as a new report from Netskope shows. When more and more companies around the world decided to send their employees to the home office at the beginning of the pandemic, many IT departments were faced with an almost impossible task: On the one hand, they had to ensure the company's ability to work by giving employees full access to the necessary programs as quickly as possible at home and get data. On the other hand, you should ensure maximum security for this data and the corporate networks as a whole. In many cases ...

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