Oct 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Financial Fraud New variants of an Android banking trojan called TrickMo have been found to harbor previously undocumented features to steal a device's unlock pattern or PIN. "This new addition enables the threat actor to operate on the device even while it is locked," Zimperium security researcher Aazim Yaswant said in an … [Read more...] about TrickMo Banking Trojan Can Now Capture Android PINs and Unlock Patterns
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U.S. Charges Iranian Hacker, Offers $10 Million Reward for Capture
Mar 02, 2024NewsroomCybercrime / Social Engineering The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday unsealed an indictment against an Iranian national for his alleged involvement in a multi-year cyber-enabled campaign designed to compromise U.S. governmental and private entities. More than a dozen entities are said to have been targeted, including the U.S. Departments of the … [Read more...] about U.S. Charges Iranian Hacker, Offers $10 Million Reward for Capture
New Attack Lets Android Apps Capture Loudspeaker Data Without Any Permission
Earlier this month, The Hacker News covered a story on research revealing how over 1300 Android apps are collecting sensitive data even when users have explicitly denied the required permissions.The research was primarily focused on how app developers abuse multiple ways around to collect location data, phone identifiers, and MAC addresses of their users by exploiting both … [Read more...] about New Attack Lets Android Apps Capture Loudspeaker Data Without Any Permission