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Mobile malware evolution in 2024

SecureList

million attacks involving malware, adware or unwanted mobile software were prevented. Adware, the most common mobile threat, accounted for 35% of total detections. million malicious and potentially unwanted installation packages were detected, almost 69,000 of which associated with mobile banking Trojans. A total of 1.1

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T-Mobile is one of the victims of the massive Chinese breach of telecom firms

Security Affairs

T-Mobile confirmed being a victim of recent hacking campaigns linked to China-based threat actors targeting telecom companies. T-Mobile confirms it was hacked as part of a long-running cyber espionage campaign targeting Telco companies. The bad news is that this isn’t the first incident suffered by T-Mobile.

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Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing Via SMS

Krebs on Security

Those who fall for the scam are asked to provide payment card data, and eventually will be asked to supply a one-time password sent via SMS or a mobile authentication app. Notably, none of the phishing pages will even load unless the website detects that the visitor is coming from a mobile device.

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T-Mobile detected network intrusion attempts and blocked them

Security Affairs

T-Mobile reported recent infiltration attempts but pointed out that threat actors had no access to its systems and no sensitive data was compromised. T-Mobile detected recent infiltration attempts but confirmed no unauthorized system access occurred, and no sensitive data was compromised. This is not the case at T-Mobile.”

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U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer

Krebs on Security

A recent scoop by Reuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan , malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices. “Pushwoosh Inc.

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Arrests in Tap-to-Pay Scheme Powered by Phishing

Krebs on Security

states last week independently announced arrests of Chinese nationals accused of perpetrating a novel form of tap-to-pay fraud using mobile devices. If you own a mobile phone, the chances are excellent that at some point in the past two years it has received at least one phishing message that spoofs the U.S. Image: WLVT-8.

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Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like.shop,top and.xyz

Krebs on Security

Interisle sources data about cybercrime domains from anti-spam organizations, including the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE), and the Messaging, Malware, and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG). But this past year, Interisle found the U.S.