Data theft

Zero-day hackers shift focus to enterprise tech in Google’s report

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The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has released a report detailing trends in zero-day vulnerability exploitation, showing an increasing focus on enterprise technologies in 2024. According to GTIG’s analysis, 75 zero-day vulnerabilities were actively exploited in the past year. This figure represents a decrease from the 98 observed in 2023 but remains higher than the … Read more

New SparkCat Trojan targets AppStore & Google Play users

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Kaspersky Threat Research has identified a new data-stealing Trojan named SparkCat, which is active on both AppStore and Google Play and poses a significant threat by scanning image galleries to extract sensitive data. This malware utilises optical recognition to find and steal information such as passwords and cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from images, potentially causing … Read more

Android users targeted by fake wedding invitation malware

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Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team has identified a malicious campaign that has been targeting Android users through fraudulent wedding invitations. The malware, referred to as the Tria Stealer, is disguised as a legitimate application and exploits permissions to obtain sensitive data from victims. It forwards text messages and emails, hijacks WhatsApp and Telegram accounts, … Read more