Android Car Malware Spreads Through Built-In Updaters for Ad Fraud, Proxy Botnet
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware family that's specifically designed to infect Android-based vehicle head unit firmware developed by DoFu...
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Fake Conferences, OAuth and WhatsApp: Inside Russia’s New Espionage Tactics
Google tracks three Russia-linked espionage clusters using phishing and legitimate authentication tools to target researchers, diplomats and defense staff. G...
Google Chrome 151 Update Fixes 7 Security Flaws Enabling Remote Code Execution and Sandbox Escape
Google has released Chrome version 151 to the Stable channel for desktop platforms, addressing seven security vulnerabilities. Among these vulnerabilities is...
The invisible passenger in your car
Kaspersky expert has discovered new Android malware designed to serve ads and build a proxy botnet. It's delivered through legitimate software for DoFun head...
New Manic Android Malware Targets 169 Apps, Steals PINs and Exfiltrates Data via Wi-Fi Mesh
A newly discovered Android malware family called Manic, which combines banking fraud functions with advanced spyware and remote device control capabilities. ...
SilkParasite Uses Google Drive as C2 to Hide RAT Traffic Inside Trusted Cloud Services
SilkParasite, a long-running cyberespionage operation targeting government bodies across Central Asia through a compact but highly mature arsenal of remote a...
New Android banking Trojan ToxicPanda 2.0 expands victim targeting
Discovered by Zimperium's zLabs team, ToxicPanda 2.0 leverages the Android Accessibility Service to enable wireless debugging, effectively gaining shell acce...
Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts
Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals work...
Manic: The Android Malware That Exfiltrates Data Even When the Phone Is Offline
Manic Android malware combines banking fraud and spyware, using a Bluetooth relay to steal data even when devices are offline. ThreatFabric’s Mobile Threat I...
Kriminal breaks out of Grok, Claude guardrails at $12.99
Security researchers are warning of a criminal AI service built on Grok and Claude, among other models, that promises uncensored access to powerful AI capabi...
ToxicPanda 2.0 Steals PINs From 140+ Banking and Cryptocurrency Apps Using Invisible Overlays
ToxicPanda 2.0, an evolved Android banking Trojan that significantly expands its fraud, device control, and credential theft capabilities.
Manic Android Malware Exfiltrates Data From Offline Phones via Nearby Infected Devices
A new Android threat codenamed Manic has been observed actively targeting Ukrainian banks, government and identity services, and messaging applications, as w...
Fake Gemini installer delivers Vidar infostealer via Google Colab lure
A malicious executable masquerading as a Google Gemini installer was used to deliver the Vidar infostealer on a company network in the EMEA region, according...
ToxicPanda 2.0 and GoldDigger Expand Android Banking Attacks with On-Device Fraud
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on an updated version of ToxicPanda (aka TgToxic) that comes with "significant enhancements," including a set of 16...
New Manic Android malware can exfiltrate data through nearby devices
A new Android malware named Manic targeting users in multiple European countries has a fallback data exfiltration mechanism that uses nearby infected devices...
Updated ToxicPanda Variant Targets 140+ Banking and Crypto Apps
Zimperium lifts the lid on the ToxicPanda 2.
Smashing Security podcast #481: Never say this to a robot dog
At Black Hat this month, a group of security researchers took a $9,000 robot dog, plugged Google's AI into its brain, and jailbroke it by telling it - with a...
Google Mandiant AI Agents Find Over 100 Critical Vulnerabilities in Source Code Within Two Days
Google’s Threat Intelligence Group has announced that its Agentic Vulnerability Discovery Harness (AVDH) identified over 100 critical true-positive vulnerabi...
Balonx PhaaS Steals Bank OTPs in Real Time While AI Calls and Android RAT Target Victims
Mexico’s banking sector is facing a more industrialized fraud threat as the Balonx Sistema phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation combines real-time OTP the...
Google’s AI security agents found 100+ critical software vulnerabilities in just two days
Google’s Mandiant has disclosed the workings of an internal tool that uses chains of AI agents to hunt for vulnerabilities in source code, saying it found ov...