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You’ve Just Won $1,000! Lucky You!

We’ve all seen them. They are annoying; can be abusive and sometimes malicious. It goes something like this: You’re navigating a web page to read an article on your mobile phone.  Just as you start to read, the whole page is redirected. A full screen ad announces you’ve just won […]

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Fake Play Market: Zimperium’s z9 against Social Engineering Attack Vectors

Analysis & Post By: Alex Calleja (@alximw) Matteo Favaro (@fvrmatteo) Introduction Since the beginning of 2018, researchers in Zimperium’s zLabs have been tracking a rise in the frequency and sophistication of applications that have been loaded outside of the official Google Play Store. Many of these have leveraged social engineering techniques […]

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Webinar: Why One of the World’s Largest Independent Energy Companies Is Implementing Mobile Threat Defense

Webinar reveals why leading critical national infrastructure enterprises are implementing mobile threat defense. Zimperium is providing mobile security for electric utilities and other critical national infrastructure (CNI) enterprises. Customers, media and the general public watching the live webinar will discover why mobile devices are a security risk to these enterprises. […]

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Threat Advisory: Skygofree

Skygofree, another in the long line of Android based spyware, is being touted as one of the most advanced targeted surveillance tools ever seen on mobile devices. Skygofree is designed to enable surveillance and full device control by remote attackers. On unprotected mobile devices, Skygofree allows attackers to perform advanced […]

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BankBot & Friends: Phishing Mobile Customers Like You Soon

Back in April of 2017, researchers discovered a new form of Android-targeting malware using fake overlay screens to mimic existing banking apps and steal user credentials. Distributed as benign apps in Google Play, BankBot-infected apps were posing as 20 entertainment and mobile banking apps. This first version of BankBot targeted a small […]

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Fake WhatsApp… and the Real Malware zLabs Discovered

On November 3, 2017, some users of Reddit noticed two WhatsApp applications with the same developer name “WhatsApp Inc.” and started to investigate what looked like a fake update for the WhatsApp application. They quickly realized that the application has been downloaded more than one million times. As a part […]

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Clicking Bot Applications

Cyber crime, like any crime, has its motives; each malware has its own malicious profit. Spyware spies on you. Ransomware demands a ransom to decrypt your private digital data. Phishing Malware phishes for your username, password or account numbers. Installation-fraud achieves fake software installations. Ad fraud fraudulently represents online advertisement […]

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Detecting DoubleLocker Ransomware

What is DoubleLocker? Security researchers at ESET discovered a new ransomware infecting Android phones called DoubleLocker. DoubleLocker is an exploit that encrypts data on the infected device and then changes the device PIN to a random number. Victims remain locked out of their device unless they pay a ransom to the hackers. DoubleLocker spreads […]

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