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Malicious Android apps on Google Play that included adware have been downloaded more than two million times, reports BleepingComputer.

Fake YouTube apps leveraged for CapraRAT malware distribution Malicious Android apps impersonating YouTube have been used by Pakistan-linked hacking operation APT36, also known as Transparent Tribe, to facilitate the deployment of its CapraRAT backdoor in its cyberespionage operations against India and Pakistan, BleepingComputer reports.

Pakistani threat group Transparent Tribe targets military and diplomatic personnel in India and Pakistan with romance-themed lures in the latest spyware campaign.

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Some of these apps look legitimate on Google’s app store despite having to carry malicious payloads.

Researchers have discovered more details on the newly discovered Android spyware Dracarys, used by the Bitter APT group in cyberespionage operations targeting users from New Zealand, India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom.

Android users downloaded malignant applications from the Google Play store that were designed to steal their banking details. The apps were downloaded 300,000 times.

A new SMS scam campaign relying upon 151 apps has been uncovered, with many of these apps managing to find their way into the Play Store where they amassed 10.5 million downloads.

Apple Execs chose to keep 128 million iPhones quiet September 2015, Apple managers had a dilemma at hand: Should 128 million iPhone users be notified of whether or not they had the worst massive iOS compromise on record? In the end, all the evidence shows that they chose to remain silent. Ars Technica This story first appeared Ars Technica, a reliable source for technology news, technology policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is the parent company of WIRED, Condé Nast. The researchers firs...

Cybercriminals are encouraging users to send the “offers” via WhatsApp to their friends as well. Malicious Android apps disguised as TikTok and offers for free Lenovo laptops are being used in ad-stuffing attacks underway against devices on the Jio telecom network in India, security researchers warn. Researchers from Zscaler report this threat actor has been operating various phishing scams since March 2020, all using recent headlines as lures. Their most recent socially engineered message...