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Operators of the Anatsa Android banking trojan have targeted Czechia, Slovakia, and Slovenia with the malware as part of a November attack campaign, which came months after the trojan, also known as Toddler and TeaBot, had been leveraged in attacks against the U.S., Switzerland, and the UK, among others, reports The Hacker News.

Security researchers have discovered a new malware attack featuring the SpyNote Android malware distributed though a fake IT Alert app.

Extensive data-gathering features have been discovered by F-Secure researchers within the SpyNote Android banking trojan, which has been distributed mainly through SMS phishing campaigns, according to The Hacker News.

Its source code was published on GitHub, resulting in a spike in infections.

BankInfoSecurity Compliance Twitter Get Permission Facebook says it has disrupted the activities of two Palestinian advanced persistent threat groups that targeted victims across the Middle East as part of cyber espionage campaigns. Facebook threat intelligence analysts say they discovered campaigns linked to AridViper, an espionage group that has been active since 2015, and Preventive Security Service, which is linked to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s intelligence services. The ...