Experts warn of a new Android banking trojan stealing users' credentials

Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed a new Android trojan that hijacks users' credentials and SMS messages to facilitate fraudulent activities against banks in Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Called "TeaBot" or Anatsa, the malware is said to be in its early stages of...

BRATA Malware Poses as Android Security Scanners on Google Play Store

A new set of malicious Android apps have been caught posing as app security scanners on the official Play Store to distribute a backdoor capable of gathering sensitive information. "These malicious apps urge users to update Chrome, WhatsApp, or a PDF reader, yet instead of updating the app in...

Italy CERT Warns of a New Credential Stealing Android Malware

Researchers have disclosed a new family of Android malware that abuses accessibility services in the device to hijack user credentials and record audio and video. Dubbed "Oscorp" by Italy's CERT-AGID and spotted by AddressIntel, the malware "induces the user to install an accessibility service wi...

Rana Android Malware Updates Allow WhatsApp, Telegram IM Snooping

Researchers have discovered new samples of a previously discovered Android malware, which is believed to be linked to the APT39 Iranian cyberespionage threat group. The new variant comes with new surveillance capabilities – including the ability to snoop on victims’ Skype, Instagram and WhatsApp...

Iranian RANA Android Malware Also Spies On Instant Messengers

A team of researchers today unveiled previously undisclosed capabilities of an Android spyware implant—developed by a sanctioned Iranian threat actor—that could let attackers spy on private chats from popular instant messaging apps, force Wi-Fi connections, and auto-answer calls from specific...

New Android Malware Targets PayPal, CapitalOne App Users

An Android mobile malware has been uncovered that steals payment data from users of popular financial apps like PayPal, Barclays, CapitalOne and more. The infostealer, called EventBot, has targeted users of more than 200 different banking, money-transfer services and general cryptocurrency wallet...

Unique Monokle Android Spyware Self-Signs Certificates

A never-before-publicized mobile spy tool, a mobile surveillanceware remote access trojan RAT for Android called Monokle, has been spotted using novel techniques to exfiltrate data. According to the Lookout researchers who discovered Monokle in the wild, the malware has the ability to self-sign...

Potent Skygofree Malware Packs ‘Never-Before-Seen’ Features

Researchers have identified a powerful new Android malware strain called Skygofree capable of eavesdropping on WhatsApp messages, siphoning private data off phones and allowing adversaries to open reverse shell modules on targeted devices, giving attackers ultimate remote control. Researchers sai...

Google Begins Removing Play Store Apps Misusing Android Accessibility Services

Due to rise in malware and adware abusing Android accessibility services, Google has finally decided to take strict steps against the apps on its app platform that misuse this feature. Google has emailed Android app developers informing them that within 30 days, they must show how accessibility...

Dangerous Mobile Banking Trojan Gets 'Keylogger' to Steal Everything

Cyber criminals are becoming more adept, innovative, and stealthy with each passing day. They have now shifted from traditional to more clandestine techniques that come with limitless attack vectors and are harder to detect. Security researchers have discovered that one of the most dangerous...

Android Banking Trojan Svpeng Adds Keylogger

The authors behind the Android banking malware family Svpeng have added a keylogger to a recent strain, giving attackers yet another way to steal sensitive data. Roman Unuchek, a senior malware analyst with Kaspersky Lab, said Monday he spotted a new variant of the Trojan in mid-July. Unuchek say...

A new era in mobile banking Trojans

In mid-July 2017, we found a new modification of the well-known mobile banking malware family Svpeng – Trojan-Banker.AndroidOS.Svpeng.ae. In this modification, the cybercriminals have added new functionality: it now also works as a keylogger, stealing entered text through the use of accessibility...

Code injection

The Accessibility services in Android 7.0 before 2016-10-01 mishandle motion events, which allows attackers to conduct touchjacking attacks and consequently gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 30647115...

CVE-2016-3923

The Accessibility services in Android 7.0 before 2016-10-01 mishandle motion events, which allows attackers to conduct touchjacking attacks and consequently gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 30647115...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3923

The Accessibility services in Android 7.0 before 2016-10-01 mishandle motion events, which allows attackers to conduct touchjacking attacks and consequently gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 30647115...

CVE-2016-3923

CVE-2016-3923 : A vulnerability in Android 7.0’s Accessibility services (mishandling motion events) could allow a local, crafted application to perform touchjacking and gain privileges. Affected: Android 7.0 up to the 2016-10-01 patch level (with fixes addressed in the Android 2016-10-01/2016-10-...

CVE-2016-3923

The Accessibility services in Android 7.0 before 2016-10-01 mishandle motion events, which allows attackers to conduct touchjacking attacks and consequently gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 30647115...

Fedora Update for kaccessible FEDORA-2013-13112

Check for the Version of kaccessible OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for kaccessible FEDORA-2013-13112 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it und...

Fedora Update for kaccessible FEDORA-2013-13499

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Fedora Update for kaccessible FEDORA-2013-10182

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