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Researchers say mobile malware purveyors have been abusing a bug in the Google Android platform that lets them sneak malicious code into benign mobile apps and evade security scanning tools. Google says it has updated its app malware detection mechanisms in response to the new research.

By Owais Sultan London, England, August 2, 2023 – Open Campus, a leading educational technology protocol, has announced an exciting new… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Care Bears and Open Campus Launch Educational Games on Climate Change

An issue in Viatom Health ViHealth for Android v.2.74.58 and before allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the com.viatom.baselib.mvvm.webWebViewActivity component.

By Habiba Rashid In its recent attack campaign, SpyNote Spyware is sending victims fake SMS messages urging them to install a new certified banking app. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SpyNote Spyware Returns with SMS Phishing Against Banking Customers

By Waqas The Israeli security agency Shin Bet claims to have thwarted a LinkedIn phishing scam carried out by Iranian hackers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Iranian Hackers Posed as Israelis in Targeted LinkedIn Phishing Attack

Various European customers of different banks are being targeted by an Android banking trojan called SpyNote as part of an aggressive campaign detected in June and July 2023. "The spyware is distributed through email phishing or smishing campaigns and the fraudulent activities are executed with a combination of remote access trojan (RAT) capabilities and vishing attack," Italian cybersecurity

Categories: Business Tags: VPN Tags: meta Tags: Facebook Tags: data Tags: disclosure Tags: australia Tags: australian Tags: traffic We take a look at reports that Meta subsidiaries have been ordered to pay a sizeable fine relating to disclosure issues for a now discontinued VPN. (Read more...) The post Meta subsidiaries must pay $14m over misleading data collection disclosure appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

By Deeba Ahmed Dubbed CherryBlos and FakeTrade by researchers, these two malware campaigns have been identified as potentially related by Trend Micro. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FakeTrade Android Malware Attack Steals Crypto Wallet Data

Plus: Mozilla fixes two high-severity bugs in Firefox, Citrix fixes a flaw that was used to attack a US-based critical infrastructure organization, and Oracle patches over 500 vulnerabilities.

Categories: News Tags: week Tags: security Tags: 2023 Tags: July A list of topics we covered in the week of July 24 to July 30 of 2023 (Read more...) The post A week in security (July 24 - July 30) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.