Security News > 2022 > February
A financially motivated campaign that targets Android devices and spreads mobile malware via SMS phishing techniques since at least 2018 has spread its tentacles to strike victims located in France and Germany for the first time. Dubbed Roaming Mantis, the latest spate of activities observed in 2021 involve sending fake shipping-related texts containing a URL to a landing page from where Android users are infected with a banking trojan known as Wroba whereas iPhone users are redirected to a phishing page that masquerades as the official Apple website.
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Aims to make life harder for miscreants Microsoft Office will soon block untrusted Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros sourced from the internet by default – a security measure users can...
Two different Android banking Trojans, FluBot and Medusa, are relying on the same delivery vehicle as part of a simultaneous attack campaign, according to new research published by ThreatFabric. The ongoing side-by-side infections, facilitated through the same smishing infrastructure, involved the overlapping usage of "App names, package names, and similar icons," the Dutch mobile security firm said.
Imperva fellow explains why data privacy is about much more the breaches and just knowing where your data is. I could be a network firewall and say, "By protecting your network, I'm protecting your data. Therefore, I do data security." The same thing would be true of encryption or, even more specific, technologies like tokenization or pseudo-anonymization or all of these things to hide your data in certain ways, all of these are data security and trying to protect data.
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GitLab on how DevSecOps can help developers provide security from end-to-end. TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Jonathan Hunt, VP of security for GitLab, about the security challenges companies face today and how the concept and practice of DevSecOps can help developers build end-to-end security into their applications.