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Banking Trojan Zanubis disguises itself as a government app
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The banking Trojan 'Zanubis' has been further developed and poses as an official app of the Peruvian government organization SUNAT. The Android banking Trojan Zanubis first appeared in August 2022 and initially targeted financial and crypto app users in Peru. He posed as a legitimate Android app to trick users into granting access permissions. In April of this year, those behind the malware went a step further and disguised Zanubis as an official app from the Peruvian government organization SUNAT (Superintendencia Nacional de Aduanas y de Administración Tributaria). The Trojan is created with the help of...

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Banking Trojan Qbot: new wave of attacks
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With the help of a new wave of attacks with infected PDFs, the banking Trojan Qbot wants to spread further. Companies in particular often get the infected files delivered to their mailbox. The phishing campaign also spreads via German-language malicious files. Kaspersky experts detected a new wave of Qbot malware activity earlier this month. It targets business users and is distributed via malicious spam email campaign. The cybercriminals use advanced social engineering techniques for their project: they intercept existing e-mail correspondence and forward malicious PDF attachments within the conversation. To date, Kaspersky solutions have received more than 5.000 such emails...

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BaFin and BSI warn of Android banking Trojan Godfather
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The Android banking Trojan Godfather has become a major threat. Now, after the BSI, the BaFin - Federal Financial Supervisory Authority - felt compelled to issue a warning. The app now attacks victims using over 400 international targets, including banking apps, cryptocurrency wallets, and crypto exchanges. According to the test laboratory AV-TEST, some protection apps now recognize the danger and fend off Godfather. The Godfather banking Trojan is up to mischief on Android and is very difficult to detect. Godfather's destinations include financial service providers in Canada, France, Germany, UK, Italy...

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QBot: New Wave of Activity Targets Enterprises 
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After a hiatus, a malicious email campaign is back targeting businesses with the dangerous QBot malware. Kaspersky has identified a new wave of activity affecting more than 1.500 users since September 28, 2022. The most frequently attacked countries with QBot on companies include the USA with 193 affected users, followed by Italy with 151 affected users, Germany with 93 affected users and India with 74 affected (as of October 4, 2022). Austria and Switzerland are also affected with 17 and 14 cases respectively. Kaspersky has so far more than 400…

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Banking Trojan FluBot targets smartphones in Germany

Current banking Trojan campaign hides attack methods behind new supposed content. Bitdefender experts are investigating the new variants of the banking Trojans FluBot and TeaBot, which target smartphones in Germany. Bitdefender Labs experts have been monitoring new variants of the FluBot and TeaBot banking Trojans since December 2021. Over 100.000 malicious SMS were registered in Bitdefender telemetry alone during this period. An important focus of the attacks in December 2021 was Germany with 32,23%. Only Australia was hit harder. The criminal actors have now adapted their campaigns and are now luring with supposedly new content....

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Facebook leak: fake SMS for new packages
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More and more users in Germany are complaining about fake package notifications via SMS - also on company smartphones. In the SMS spam, recipients are asked to click on a link and install an app in order to see the delivery status of the alleged package. The FluBot banking Trojan gets onto the device when it is installed. ESET security expert Lukas Stefanko assesses the current situation and sees a connection between the wave of fake SMS and the Facebook data leak: “In the last seven days we have seen a rapid increase in the campaign in Germany. In addition to fake messages from Fedex, users receive ...

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