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+60,000 Android apps spotted hiding adware for past six months

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Bitdefender researchers have discovered 60,000 different Android apps secretly installing adware in the past six months. Bitdefender announced the discovery of more than 60,000 Android apps in the past six months that were spotted installing adware on Android devices. ” reads the report published by Bitdefender.

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Mobile malware evolution 2021

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In 2021, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 3,464,756 malicious installation packages. 97,661 new mobile banking Trojans. 17,372 new mobile ransomware Trojans. In 2021, we observed a downward trend in the number of attacks on mobile users. Number of attacks on mobile users. Figures of the year.

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IT threat evolution in Q3 2022. Non-mobile statistics

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Non-mobile statistics. Mobile statistics. July saw the discovery of two campaigns that used a fake VPN application and fake Salesforce updates , both built on the Sliver framework. As usual, our TOP 20 ranking for biggest threats encountered by users of Kaspersky security solutions for macOS were dominated by adware.

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Apple Fixes Zero-Day Flaws in Unscheduled iOS Update – Here’s How to Patch

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Apple this week issued out-of-band updates for mobile customers to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities that let attackers execute remote code on their iDevices. The Cupertino-based tech giant says criminals “may” have already exploited the flaws. Available for most iDevices in circulation, iOS 14.5.1 (and and the complementary iPadOS 14.5.1)

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3 Companies that Help SMBs to Improve Their Cybersecurity

Hacker Combat

The majority of these apps have insufficiently encrypted source code and didn’t have intrusion recognition when hackers retrieved limited mobile data. Perimeter 81 is designed to streamline cloud and application access, secure network, and provides an SDP service to address the VPN replacement use case.

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Good game, well played: an overview of gaming-related cyberthreats in 2022

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To make the overview more in-depth, we included both mobile and PC games. As the mobile gaming market continues to grow, we analyzed KSN data specifically on mobile threats. TOP 5 mobile games used as a lure for distribution of malware and unwanted software, by users, from July 1, 2021 through June, 30 2022. Call of Duty.

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Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022

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Also, many groups relied on vulnerabilities in VPN servers. An incident investigation conducted by Kaspersky ICS CERT at one of the attacked enterprises revealed that they exploited a vulnerability in FortiGate VPN servers (CVE-2018-13379). ” Mobile banking Trojans on the rise. We also saw attackers relying on 0-days.