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Predatory app downloaded 100,000 times from Google Play Store steals data, uses it for blackmail

Malwarebytes

A malicious app claiming to be a financial management tool has been downloaded 100,000 times from the Google Play Store. Sometimes malware creators manage to get their apps listed in the official app store. Choose a strong password that you dont use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you.

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Fake Booking.com phish uses fake CAPTCHAs to trick hotel staff into downloading malware

Malwarebytes

Choose a strong password that you dont use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA). Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password. 2FA that relies on a FIDO2 device cant be phished.

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Phishing evolves beyond email to become latest Android app threat

Malwarebytes

Of those malicious apps, 5,200 could subvert one of the strongest security practices available today, called multifactor authentication, by prying into basic text messages sent to a device. They dont crack into password managers or spy on passwords entered for separate apps. A low number of reviews may signal a decoy app.

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Glove Stealer bypasses Chrome’s App-Bound Encryption to steal cookies

Security Affairs

The malware could harvest a huge trove of data from infected systems, including cookies, autofill, cryptocurrency wallets, 2FA authenticators, password managers, and email client information. To extract cookies from Chromium-based browsers, it downloads a module from the C&C to bypass App-Bound encryption.

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On world password day, Microsoft says fewer passwords, more passkeys

Malwarebytes

In 2013, Intel introduced World Password Day to remind people of the importance of strong passwords. But over time, the number of passwords we use, and the necessary strengths have grown so much that the system has become practically unusable without a password manager. Passkeys remove this burden entirely.

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Data From The Qakbot Malware is Now Searchable in Have I Been Pwned, Courtesy of the FBI

Troy Hunt

If you're reusing passwords across services, get a password manager and change them to be strong and unique. Enable multi-factor authentication where supported, at least for your most important services (email, banking, social, etc.)

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Man accused of using keylogger to spy on colleagues, log in to their personal accounts and watch them at home

Malwarebytes

This access enabled Bathula to download the victims’ personal information, including their private photographs and videos, the class action asserts, adding that he also used his access to systems both at home and at work to spy on the victims in real time. Watch where you download from. Don’t reuse passwords.