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Below we look at ways to identify app impersonation, tools to defend yourself from attacks and measures to put in place for better security. In addition to the examples given above, app impersonation occurs in many other ways.
Over the last several years, as the Android ecosystem matured, widely-distributed malware with rooting capabilities has become rare. By definition, rooting malware is extremely dangerous because it can gain privileged access to the Android operating system.
If you do a lot of work out of the home on public, or even public but secured, Wi-Fi networks you need a VPN for your phone or other mobile device that will anonymize your traffic and prevent your personally identifiable information from being handed over to an attacker on a silver platter. One thing to note here: I'm not including any free VPNs in this list of five, each of which is a premium product.
The report isn't just one researcher's work, or even one department's work, but the combined effort of SophosLabs, Sophos Managed Threat Response, Sophos Rapid Response, and Sophos Artificial Intelligence. Don't take Joe's word for it read the report and see how we live up to those three principles!
Mobile phishing exposure surged 161% within the energy industry between the second half of 2020 and the first half of 2021, a Lookout report reveals. Regional mobile phishing exposure rates: North America, APAC and EMEA. EMEA and APAC employees were 41% and 18% more likely to experience a mobile phishing attack than their North American peers.
Mobile phishing attacks targeting employees in the energy industry have risen by 161% compared to last year's data, and the trend is showing no signs of slowing down. There is a rising trend in phishing attacks targeting the global energy industry across the world.
Mobile application security is about delivering leakage-free, vulnerability-free, tamper-proof and self-protecting mobile apps. Mobile applications' time-to-market is rushed by urgent business needs and their conception is not conducted as thoroughly as developers and security teams would want.
A prominent Togolese human rights defender has been targeted with spyware by a threat actor known for striking victims in South Asia, marking the hacking group's first foray into digital surveillance in Africa. Amnesty International tied the covert attack campaign to a collective tracked as "Donot Team", which has been linked to cyber offensives in India and Pakistan, while also identifying apparent evidence linking the group's infrastructure to an Indian company called Innefu Labs.
Jack Wallen dispenses his bi-annual advice to Android users on how to avoid falling prey to malicious apps and bad actors. Malicious actors count on users not bothering to do even the slightest bit of research or consider the consequences of randomly installing apps.
Syniverse, a service provider for most telecommunications companies, disclosed that hackers had access to its databases over the past five years and compromised login credentials belonging to hundreds of customers. Self-described as "The world's most connected company," Syniverse provides text messaging routing services to over 300 mobile operators, among them Vodafone, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, America Movil, Telefonica, and China Mobile.