Arid Viper Targeting Arabic Android Users with Spyware Disguised as Dating App

The threat actor known as Arid Viper aka APT-C-23, Desert Falcon, or TAG-63 has been attributed as behind an Android spyware campaign targeting Arabic-speaking users with a counterfeit dating app designed to harvest data from infected handsets. "Arid Viper's Android malware has a number of featur...

Chinese APT Slid Fake Signal and Telegram Apps onto Official App Stores

By Habiba Rashid Key Findings Cybersecurity researchers have warned of fake Signal and Telegram apps that have been distributed through the… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese APT Slid Fake Signal and Telegram Apps onto Official App Stores...

New Android Malware Steals Banking Passwords, Private Data and Keystrokes

A new type of mobile banking malware has been discovered abusing Android's accessibility features to exfiltrate sensitive data from financial applications, read user SMS messages, and hijack SMS-based two-factor authentication codes. Called "EventBot" by Cybereason researchers, the malware is...

Android Malware that can DDoS Attacks from your smartphone

The Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web has found a new malicious program for Android which allows hacker groups to carry out mobile denial of service attacks. While it's not entirely clear how the Trojan is spread, researchers suspect that the attackers use social engineering tactics since the...

New OpFake Android Malware Entices Users With Opera Mini Browser

There is a new variant of the OpFake mobile malware making the rounds, and this version comes bundled with a version of the legitimate Opera Mini mobile browser. The malware targets Android phones and steals money from victims by sending SMS messages without the user’s knowledge to premium-rate...