Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Symantec discovered eight potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) into the Microsoft Store that were dropping cryptojacking Coinhive miners. Security experts at Symantec have discovered eight potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) into the Microsoft Store that were dropping cryptojacking Coinhive miners.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A recent scoop by Reuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. based company that provides code for software developers to profile smartphone app users based on their online activity, allowing them to send tailor-made notifications. ” The Army app was used by soldiers at one of the nation’s main combat training bases.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A family of malicious apps from developer Mobile apps Group are listed on Google Play and infected with Android/Trojan.HiddenAds.BTGTHB. In total, four apps are listed, and together they have amassed at least one million downloads. It turns out that this app uses delays quite a bit, as you’ll discover in our analysis.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported. Google TAG researchers reported that the same group, tracked as Zinc ,” also targeted security researchers in past campaigns.

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Hacker's King

JUNE 29, 2023

The feature lets you send high-resolution media files within the app without reducing their quality. Open the Google Play Store and Search for WhatsApp. Open the WhatsApp Beta app listing and tap the Update button. After updating the app, open it on your smartphone and select the chat where you want to share photos in HD.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 3, 2022

But this was all in-transit coolness whilst the app logic, data and vast bulk of the codebase sat at that origin site. Does this make them a host if you can now build entire apps within their environment? Maybe so, but let's skip the titles for now and focus on the code. Very early on in the index.js

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 30, 2023

There is also a large global data structure that is used to store important information. Previous blog posts have referred to this structure as the ConfigObj, with fields that are used to store flags, encryption parameters, pointers, etc. After the code is decrypted, the delimiter tags are replaced by 90 90 90 90 90 90 (NOP) opcodes.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Use parental, privacy, and safety settings in-game, app stores, and on devices. Teach children to never disclose personally identifiable information (PII), to use avatars instead of their photo and ensure gamer tags never include PII. Choose games wisely based on ESRB safety ratings and family acceptability.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

the global leader in safeguarding enterprises from digital attacks with modern defense , today announced the takedown of a highly sophisticated ad fraud operation where more than 1,700 apps were spoofed, targeting 120 publishers, running ads within apps on nearly 11 million devices, and reaching a peak volume of 12 billion ad requests a day.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The data were provided by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which tracks government-backed hacking campaign, which warns of a significant increase in the number of the alert compared to the previous year. ” wrote Ajax Bash, a Google security engineer from the TAG.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Researchers state the flaw was a ‘zero-click’ exploit that was discovered on September 2021 by experts who tagged it as an iMessage exploit dubbed ‘ForcedEntry’ that could also infect other Apple iOS, Mac OD and iWatchOS devices.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Security experts at Google have removed from Google Play 24 apps because they were infected with a new spyware tracked as “the Joker.” ” Google has removed from Google Play 24 apps because they were infected with a new spyware tracked as “the Joker.” continues the expert. The C&C URL 6.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Cookies are small text files that organisations’ websites or apps place on your device as you’re browsing. Your web browser processes and stores them. Cookies store a variety of data, some of which constitutes personal information. Document and store consent received from users. What are cookies?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Spur.us , a startup that tracks proxy services, told KrebsOnSecurity that the Internet addresses Lumen tagged as the AVrecon botnet’s “Command and Control” (C2) servers all tie back to a long-running proxy service called SocksEscort. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2021

The mobile app is the new bank branch. With an installed base of more than three billion iOS and Android smartphones, the mobile banking app has become the main channel for consumers to interact with their bank. These new innovations enriched the mobile banking app, driving usage and traffic. In the U.S.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 4, 2022

If you do, we’ve got your back, and we humbly suggest that when you’re done tagging your dog in every photo and getting your folder names just so, you turn your attention to your device security and give that a little dust off as well. It’s like a twofer at the grocery store for them: Hack one account, get one free!

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McAfee

APRIL 12, 2021

In fact, some apps have to know your location to work. . But you’re right to question why a messaging app like WhatsApp needs to know your whereabouts. Keep reading to learn which mobile apps have location tracking and how you can revoke their access. . How to see which apps are tracking your location .

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

” In May 2022, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers discovered three campaigns, between August and October 2021, targeting Android users with five zero-day vulnerabilities. The attacks aimed at installing the surveillance spyware Predator, developed by the North Macedonian firm Cytrox.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 10, 2024

A quick intro to security keys: A security key can work in place of other forms of two-factor authentication such as receiving a code through SMS or pressing a button in an authentication app. Someone else told me you can also get credit card sized holders for them, which can be stored in a wallet.

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Spinone

MARCH 3, 2020

Users can store basically any type of file they want to store in their My Drive storage and manage these as they choose. Local sync Both Shared Drives and My Drive can utilize apps that either present files and folders from the Google Cloud or syncs them locally. first appeared on SpinOne.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Technologically speaking, we are where we are because a handful of tech giants figured out how to collect, store and monetize user data in a singular fashion. Each operates a closed platform designed to voraciously gather, store and monetize user data. Firstly, Wildland is developed to be backend-agnostic. your data in many ways.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 28, 2021

Start by looking up Firefox, Brave, DuckDuckGo, and even the Tor Browser on the Google Play and Apple App stores. Lastly, if you have a friend or family member who likes tagging you on every photo they upload (even if you’re not on the photo), feel free to un-tag yourself. Review your social privacy settings.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2023

Knowing when a message was sent to a user can establish a pattern; especially if the central servers relaying messages are logging and storing these particular data points – as many do. Photos from your iDevice may be automatically synced with Apple’s iCloud servers and while stored encrypted, Apple has the keys for decryption.

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SecureList

JUNE 1, 2021

Online-stores, banks, payment systems. Kaspersky Safe Kids allows parents to control and limit the amount of time their children spend on apps and programs on their devices. We determined the 10 most popular apps for each of the regions and countries we examined, as well as for the entire world. Android apps. Videogames.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

The vulnerability is a stored cross-site scripting issue that is related to the way the app parses incoming email messages. “A “With this in mind I tried inserting a script tag instead of an iframe into an email. The bug allowed the expert to steal data from the app, he exploited it to read and extract the HTML.

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

There are long lists of tags under each post, designed to place the target pages at the top of web search results. In 2020, we wrote about twenty applications on Google Play that disguised themselves as mods for Minecraft, and in 2021, we found even more of such apps. Need for Speed Heat. PLAYERUNKNOWN BATTLEGROUNDS. The Sims 4.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Project Zero uncovered the weakness, which is connected to unauthorized access to freed memory, possibly allowing attackers to corrupt or change sensitive data. Arm also published two additional vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-33200 and CVE-2023-34970.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2022

When executed, the app drops both a malicious file and an installer for a legitimate application, launching the malware with the created Trojanized installer path. It also uses the ‘cookie’ parameter to store four randomly generated four-byte values. lBuffer: buffer to store data to be later sent to the backdoor.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 13, 2021

You might have heard their names as they are well known in the security industry for building apps that are secure by design. As creators, they also enjoy rapidly prototyping ideas into functional apps that demonstrate innovative thoughts and potential solution to customer problems. Let’s build an App. Bootstrap the app.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

The insurance company found out that the breach occurred because patient data was stored on an FTP server with anonymous access enabled. Many ASM products do this work for you, automatically tagging assets as Linode or AWS if they are owned by these public cloud providers. Is it something we have hosted somewhere?

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Kali Linux

MAY 15, 2022

App Icons It has been some time since the last update of the kali menu. Another improvement for the app dashboard is that the programs that include a user interface will now respect the custom icon provided by Kali. Your browser does not support the video tag. The summary of the changelog since the 2022.1

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Spinone

APRIL 1, 2020

It also has the highest rating among all communication apps on G2crowd and Capterra. Key Characteristics: The app supports 28 languages in its interface. The members of a team can cooperate on the different cards on each board, tag each other, and add comments, images or files, deadlines, specifications, etc.

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Scary Beasts Security

AUGUST 30, 2008

We're building our fortified web apps on foundations of sand. The tag permits us to load CSS resource from arbitrary domains. The natural follow-up question is, are sensitive values stored in CSS properties? Browsers suck. The attack relies on the target site hosting an image at a known URL for authenticated users only.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 8, 2022

This has turned into a RFID tag, which is a fob that you carry in your pocket and the fob reaches out to the car and it will unlock the car or lock the car. You can now have an app which does all of that correspondence back and forth with the car. If I had a Tesla, I would have an app instead of a key fob. But it's not a Tesla.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

Common users are not the only ones who have recognized the messaging app’s handy features — cybercrooks have already made it a branch of the dark web, their Telegram activity soaring since late 2021. The bot can record calls and store settings, such as the victim’s phone number, name and so on. Rates start at $0.15

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The lockdown’s effect on the global economy is leading emerging markets and different regions to adopt cryptocurrency as legal tender or at least as a way of storing value during these times. While most infostealers can easily steal a locally stored wallet, a cloud-based one is also susceptible to attacks with the risk of losing funds.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 13, 2022

Some websites don’t bother with checking user inputs, which exposes the app to the maximum level of danger. Some XSS flaws can even be persistent (stored in the database, for example), which removes the hassle from attackers of making the victim click on something by automatically serving malicious payloads to the website’s users.

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