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Exploring Android threats and ways to mitigate them | Unlocked 403 cybersecurity podcast (ep.5)

Video, Mobile Security The world of Android threats is quite vast and intriguing. In this episode, Becks and Lukáš demonstrate how easy it is to take over your phone, with some added tips on how to stay secure 26 Aug 2024 Android threats are a serious business. Among them is the Blue Ducky script, which exploits the CVE-2023-45866 Android device vulnerability.  By running the Blue Ducky script, an attacker can: Inject keystrokes and thus control…

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PWA phishing on Android and iOS – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video Phishing using PWAs? ESET Research’s latest discovery might just ruin some users’ assumptions about their preferred platform’s security 23 Aug 2024 ESET researchers have recently revealed an uncommon type of phishing campaign using Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) that targeted the clients of a prominent Czech bank.  The technique used installed a phishing application from a third-party website without the user having to allow third-party app installation. This is because PWAs are simply websites bundled…

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NGate Android malware relays NFC traffic to steal cash

ESET researchers uncovered a crimeware campaign that targeted clients of three Czech banks. The malware used, which we have named NGate, has the unique ability to relay data from victims’ payment cards, via a malicious app installed on their Android devices, to the attacker’s rooted Android phone. Key points of this blogpost: Attackers combined standard malicious techniques – social engineering, phishing, and Android malware – into a novel attack scenario; we suspect that lure messages…

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Local Networks Go Global When Domain Names Collide

The proliferation of new top-level domains (TLDs) has exacerbated a well-known security weakness: Many organizations set up their internal Microsoft authentication systems years ago using domain names in TLDs that didn’t exist at the time. Meaning, they are continuously sending their Windows usernames and passwords to domain names they do not control and which are freely available for anyone to register. Here’s a look at one security researcher’s efforts to map and shrink the size…

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How regulatory standards and cyber insurance inform each other

Business Security Should the payment of a ransomware demand be illegal? Should it be regulated in some way? These questions are some examples of the legal minefield that cybersecurity teams must deal with Tony Anscombe 21 Aug 2024  •  , 3 min. read Governments create legislation and regulations primarily to protect public interests and keep order, ensuring society functions as it should. When related to cyber insurance and cybersecurity, regulation is aimed at ethical conduct,…

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Be careful what you pwish for – Phishing in PWA applications

In this blogpost we discuss an uncommon type of phishing campaign targeting mobile users and analyze a case that we observed in the wild that targeted clients of a prominent Czech bank. This technique is noteworthy because it installs a phishing application from a third-party website without the user having to allow third-party app installation. For iOS users, such an action might break any “walled garden” assumptions about security. On Android, this could result in…

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National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords

New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that another NPD data broker which shares access to the same consumer records inadvertently published the passwords to its back-end database in a file that was freely available from its homepage until today. In April, a cybercriminal named USDoD began…

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How a BEC scam cost a company $60 Million – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video Business email compromise (BEC) has once again proven to be a costly issue, with a company losing $60 million in a wire transfer fraud scheme 16 Aug 2024 A Luxembourg-based chemicals and manufacturing company has recently suffered one of the largest-ever business email compromise (BEC) attacks. According to a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC), an employee was tricked into making multiple wire transfers to cybercriminals, losing the company $60 million. …

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NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data

A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named consumer data broker called NationalPublicData.com. This post examines what we know about a breach that has exposed hundreds of millions of consumer records. We’ll also take a closer look at the data broker that got hacked — a background check company founded by an actor…

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Why scammers want your phone number

Scams Your phone number is more than just a way to contact you – scammers can use it to target you with malicious messages and even exploit it to gain access to your bank account or steal corporate data Márk Szabó 13 Aug 2024  •  , 5 min. read Last month, we looked at how scammers can gain access to your phone number and how data breaches and phishing campaigns could make obtaining it easy.…

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