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We track the ongoing activities of more than 900 advanced threat actors. Here we try to focus on what we consider to be the most interesting trends and developments of the last 12 months. Continue reading APT annual review: What the world’s threat actors got up to in 2020
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As many of you know I’ve joined forces with Team Armadillo Phone in the fight against cybercriminals including nation-state and rogue and malicious including possibly fraudulent cyber adversaries for the position of Security Blogger… Continue reading The Armadillo Phone – A Security Review
Let us review the forecasts we made at the end of 2019 and see how accurate we were. Then we will go through the key events of 2020 relating to financial attacks. Finally, we need to make a forecast of financial attacks in 2021. Continue reading Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2021
Fake Minecraft Modpacks on Google Play deliver millions of abusive ads and make normal phone use impossible. Continue reading ‘Minecraft Mods’ Attack More Than 1 Million Android Devices
Trying to make predictions about the future is a tricky business. However, while we don’t have a crystal ball that can reveal the future, we can try to make educated guesses using the trends that we have observed over the last 12 months to identify areas that attackers are likely to seek to exploit in the near future. Continue reading Advanced Threat predictions for 2021
Trying to make predictions about the future is a tricky business. However, while we don’t have a crystal ball that can reveal the future, we can try to make educated guesses using the trends that we have observed over the last 12 months to identify areas that attackers are likely to seek to exploit in the near future. Continue reading Advanced Threat predictions for 2021
The Roaming Mantis group is targeting the States with a malware that can steal information, harvest financial data and send texts to self-propagate. Continue reading Wroba Mobile Banking Trojan Spreads to the U.S. via Texts
The malware also has a unique machine-learning module. Continue reading Sophisticated Android Ransomware Executes with the Home Button
Mobile ransomware scams — in which crooks lock your phone and demand money — are nothing new. But they are getting more clever as cybercriminals find new ways to circumvent security. The latest example is a ransomware scheme targeting Android phones that Microsoft made public Thursday. According to the research, the malicious code gets around security checks that Google, which owns Android, has instituted against previous ransomware kits. Instead of abusing a permission feature that controls what apps can do on the phone, as other mobile ransomware scams have, this one triggers an incoming call notice to display the ransom note. It’s “the latest variant of a ransomware family that’s been in the wild for a while but has been evolving non-stop,” Dinesh Venkatesan, a Microsoft researcher, wrote in a blog. Mobile ransomware generally isn’t as profitable as ransomware attacks on PCs or enterprise networks. But Allan Liska, an analyst at threat […]
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Learn about the growing cybercrime trends, how to identify them and how to avoid falling victim.
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