A large-scale fraud campaign leveraged fake trading apps published on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, as well as phishing sites, to defraud victims, per findings from Group-IB. The campaign is part of a consumer investment fraud scheme that's also widely known as pig butchering, in which prospective victims are lured into making investments in cryptocurrency or other … [Read more...] about Fake Trading Apps Target Victims Globally via Apple App Store and Google Play
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Crypto Scam App Disguised as WalletConnect Steals $70K in Five-Month Campaign
Sep 28, 2024Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Android app on the Google Play Store that enabled the threat actors behind it to steal approximately $70,000 in cryptocurrency from victims over a period of nearly five months. The dodgy app, identified by Check Point, masqueraded as the legitimate WalletConnect … [Read more...] about Crypto Scam App Disguised as WalletConnect Steals $70K in Five-Month Campaign
North Korean Hackers Targets Job Seekers with Fake FreeConference App
North Korean threat actors have leveraged a fake Windows video conferencing application impersonating FreeConference.com to backdoor developer systems as part of an ongoing financially-driven campaign dubbed Contagious Interview. The new attack wave, spotted by Singaporean company Group-IB in mid-August 2024, is yet another indication that the activity is also leveraging native … [Read more...] about North Korean Hackers Targets Job Seekers with Fake FreeConference App
macOS Version of HZ RAT Backdoor Targets Chinese Messaging App Users
Aug 27, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware Users of Chinese instant messaging apps like DingTalk and WeChat are the target of an Apple macOS version of a backdoor named HZ RAT. The artifacts "almost exactly replicate the functionality of the Windows version of the backdoor and differ only in the payload, which is received in the form of shell scripts from the … [Read more...] about macOS Version of HZ RAT Backdoor Targets Chinese Messaging App Users
Researchers Uncover Flaws in Windows Smart App Control and SmartScreen
Aug 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered design weaknesses in Microsoft's Windows Smart App Control and SmartScreen that could enable threat actors to gain initial access to target environments without raising any warnings. Smart App Control (SAC) is a cloud-powered security feature introduced by Microsoft in … [Read more...] about Researchers Uncover Flaws in Windows Smart App Control and SmartScreen
New Adware Campaign Targets Meta Quest App Seekers
Jun 22, 2024NewsroomPhishing Attack / Adware A new campaign is tricking users searching for the Meta Quest (formerly Oculus) application for Windows into downloading a new adware family called AdsExhaust. "The adware is capable of exfiltrating screenshots from infected devices and interacting with browsers using simulated keystrokes," cybersecurity firm eSentire said in an … [Read more...] about New Adware Campaign Targets Meta Quest App Seekers
Logz.io Upgrades App 360, Kubernetes 360 with AI Assistant, New Tracing Quickview
At Logz.io, we believe the future of observability will center on the rapid advancement of automation, innovations around artificial intelligence, and streamlining processes that currently remain far too complex.This is no different than many other areas of technology, but the opportunities in observability are vast, and we see all of these areas connecting and driving … [Read more...] about Logz.io Upgrades App 360, Kubernetes 360 with AI Assistant, New Tracing Quickview
Apache Cordova App Harness Targeted in Dependency Confusion Attack
Apr 23, 2024NewsroomSupply Chain Attack / Application Security Researchers have identified a dependency confusion vulnerability impacting an archived Apache project called Cordova App Harness. Dependency confusion attacks take place owing to the fact that package managers check the public repositories before private registries, thus allowing a threat actor to publish a … [Read more...] about Apache Cordova App Harness Targeted in Dependency Confusion Attack
Rethinking APM with Logz.io App 360
As we continue to navigate the ongoing evolution of the observability landscape, Logz.io is constantly striving to provide our customers with the advanced platform capabilities needed to make sense of their increasingly complex environments.Sometimes that means taking a new approach to long-standing practices. For years, organizations have relied on application performance … [Read more...] about Rethinking APM with Logz.io App 360
Application Observability in Minutes: How to Implement App 360
As applications in the cloud become more distributed and complex, the Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) for production issues is getting longer. Modern systems are built with hundreds of distinct, ephemeral, and interconnected cloud components, which can make it exceptionally hard for engineers to understand the current state of their applications, what problems are impacting … [Read more...] about Application Observability in Minutes: How to Implement App 360