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Researchers have discovered a new Android banking malware that targets Brazil's Itaú Unibanco with the help of lookalike Google Play Store pages to carry out fraudulent financial transactions on victim devices without their knowledge. "The has created a fake Google Play Store page and hosted the malware that targets Itaú Unibanco on it under the name 'sincronizador.apk.'".
It's been a tumultuous year for 5G as wireless carriers scrambled to deploy their networks at mid-band and increasingly millimeter-wave frequencies, and the trend will undoubtedly accelerate in 2022. New hybrid private networks and managed service offers using both Wi-Fi and 5G millimeter-wave technologies, gain momentum as a high-performance, flexible and economic solution for enterprises.
ReasonLabs, a leading provider of cybersecurity prevention and detection software, recently discovered a new form of malware hacking into customer computers in the guise of the latest Spiderman movie. As perhaps the most talked-about movie for some time, Spiderman: No Way Home represents an excellent opportunity for hackers.
Researchers have discovered a new Android banking malware that targets Brazil's Itaú Unibanco with the help of lookalike Google Play Store pages to carry out fraudulent financial transactions on victim devices without their knowledge. "The has created a fake Google Play Store page and hosted the malware that targets Itaú Unibanco on it under the name 'sincronizador.apk.'".
The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo continues to grow rapidly, with the company now averaging over 100 million daily search queries and growing by almost 47% in 2021. To build their search index, the search engine uses the DuckDuckBot spider to crawl sites and receive data from partners, such as Wikipedia and Bing.
The Log4j saga: New vulnerabilities and attack vectors discoveredThe Apache Log4j saga continues, as several new vulnerabilities have been discovered in the popular library since Log4Shell was fixed by releasing Log4j v2.15.0. Cyber insurance trends: Insurers and insurees must adapt equally to growing threatsIn this interview with Help Net Security, Avi Bashan, CTO at Kovrr, talks about cyber insurance trends and how the growing threat landscape impacted both insurers and insurees.
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The holiday season is here, but there is no rest for our weary admins as ransomware gangs are still conducting attacks over the Christmas and New Years breaks. Jakub Kroustek found a new Dharma ransomware variant that appends the.
SFW! Here they are! The Top N cybersecurity stories of the year that are totally SFW, and entirely conducive to Happy Holidays! While everyone else was choosing their Top N Terrible Cybersecurity Incidents Of 2021, some of them for worryingly high values of N, we thought we'd pick our year-end stories in a more family-friendly way.
A new ransomware operation named Rook has appeared recently on the cyber-crime space, declaring a desperate need to make "a lot of money" by breaching corporate networks and encrypting devices. The Rook ransomware payload is usually delivered via Cobalt Strike, with phishing emails and shady torrent downloads being reported as the initial infection vector.