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The threat actors behind the PixPirate Android banking trojan are leveraging a new trick to evade detection on compromised devices and harvest sensitive information from users in Brazil. The...
RiskInDroid is an open-source tool for quantitative risk analysis of Android applications based on machine learning techniques. "A user should be able to quickly assess an application's level of risk by simply glancing at RiskInDroid's output, and they should be able to compare the app's risk with others easily," Gabriel Claudiu Georgiu, developer of RiskInDroid, told Help Net Security.
Microsoft has unexpectedly announced they are ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android next year on March 5th. The Windows Subsystem for Android allows users to run native Android apps in a virtualized environment with sound, graphics, and network connectivity. Released in October 2021, WSA quickly became a novelty for allowing users to install apps from the Amazon App Store in Windows 11.
Brave Software is the next company to jump into AI, announcing a new privacy-preserving AI assistant called "Leo" is rolling out on the Android version of its browser through the latest release, version 1.63. Brave says its AI assistant stands out for its ability to provide high-quality, relevant answers with fewer errors, thanks to leveraging several advanced large-language models like Mixtral 8x7B, Claude Instant, and Llama 2 13B, with Mixtral set as the default for its multilingual capabilities and superior performance.
In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software but couldn't get investors interested. Roid is a large team at Google today, delivering an OS to over 3 billion devices worldwide.
Cybersecurity researchers have identified two authentication bypass flaws in open-source Wi-Fi software found in Android, Linux, and ChromeOS devices that could trick users into joining a...
The Anatsa banking trojan has been targeting users in Europe by infecting Android devices through malware droppers hosted on Google Play. Last summer, ThreatFabric warned of another Europe-focused Anatsa campaign that also used dropper apps hosted on Google Play, primarily fake PDF viewer apps.
Meta Platforms said it took a series of steps to curtail malicious activity from eight different firms based in Italy, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) operating in the...
The Android banking trojan known as Anatsa has expanded its focus to include Slovakia, Slovenia, and Czechia as part of a new campaign observed in November 2023. "Some of the droppers in the...
A new iOS and Android trojan named 'GoldPickaxe' employs a social engineering scheme to trick victims into scanning their faces and ID documents, which are believed to be used to generate deepfakes for unauthorized banking access. The new malware, spotted by Group-IB, is part of a malware suite developed by the Chinese threat group known as 'GoldFactory,' which is responsible for other malware strains such as 'GoldDigger', 'GoldDiggerPlus,' and 'GoldKefu.