Roaming Mantis Swarms Globally, Spawning iOS Phishing, Cryptomining
Analysis shows that the malware, previously a banking trojan focused on Android devices, has rapidly evolved just in the past month. Source: www.threatpost.com
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Roaming Mantis Swarms Globally, Spawning iOS Phishing, Cryptomining
Analysis shows that the malware, previously a banking trojan focused on Android devices, has rapidly evolved just in the past month. Source: www.threatpost.com
Roaming Mantis Swarms Globally, Spawning iOS Phishing, Cryptomining
Analysis shows that the malware, previously a banking trojan focused on Android devices, has rapidly evolved just in the past month. Source: www.threatpost.com
Fake Fortnite Apps for Android Spread Spyware, Cryptominers
An array of malicious Android apps purporting to be popular game Fortnite are instead harvesting call logs and downloading cryptomining malware. Source: www.threatpost.com
Samsung Patches Six Critical Bugs in Flagship Handsets
Samsung updates S9, Note 8 and S8 phones with 27 patches from a RCE bug to a patch that prevents an ancient peek-and-poke attack first identified in 1980s. Source: www.threatpost.com
Severe Keyboard Flaws in LG Smartphones Allow Remote Code Execution
An attacker can gain man-in-the-middle access to inject a rogue executable file onto the phone. Source: www.threatpost.com
Sierra Wireless Patches Critical Vulns in Range of Wireless Routers
The flaws would leave the enterprise devices helpless to a range of remote threats, including the charms of the Reaper IoT botnet. Source: www.threatpost.com
Phone Maker BLU Settles with FTC Over Unauthorized User Data Extraction
Florida-based phone maker BLU is facing an FTC complaint over allegations it shared detailed personal user data with a third-party firm that included full text messages, call logs and contact lists. Source: www.threatpost.com
Free Speech Advocates Blast Amazon Over Threats Against Signal
Secure-messaging firm Signal was told by Amazon not to use its AWS servers for domain-fronting, a technique used to enable communications in countries such as Egypt, Oman, Qatar and UAE where the service is banned. Source: https://threatpost.com
Nate Cardozo, Attorney with EFF Talks Encryption at RSA Conference 2018
Threatpost talks to crypto expert Nate Cardozo, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation at RSA Conference 2018 about the U.S. government’s current position on device encryption and law enforcement’s use of iPhone passcode cracker called GreyKey. Source: www.threatpost.com