Cybercriminals Use Fake Apps to Steal Data and Blackmail Users Across Asia’s Mobile Networks

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new, large-scale mobile malware campaign that's targeting Android and iOS platforms with fake dating, social networking, cloud storage, and car service apps to steal sensitive personal data. The cross-platform threat has been codenamed SarangTrap by...

Duo of Android dropper and payload target certain countries and app users

After making its first in-the-wild appearance in March 2021, Vultur—an information-stealing RAT that runs on Android—is back. And its dropper is equally nasty. Vultur Romanian for "vulture" is known to target banks, cryptocurrency wallets, social media Facebook, TikTok, and messaging services...

Twitter Draws Data Privacy Concerns with Two New Bugs

Two recently-patched flaws in Twitter’s platform have reignited concerns about user data-privacy issues. On Monday, the social-media giant revealed a hole that accidentally enabled bad actors to pull the country codes of accounts’ phone numbers – and revealed that several IP addresses located in...