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How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets

February 28, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, All About Skimmers, andy chandler, Apple, csis security group, ford merrill, ghost tap, Google, grant smith, imessage, m3aawg, rcs, resecurity, secalliance, smishing, The Coming Storm, threatfabric, Web Fraud 2.0, znfc

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:37:26 +0000

Carding — the underground business of stealing, selling and swiping stolen payment card data — has long been the dominion of Russia-based hackers. Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. But a flurry of innovation from cybercrime groups in China is breathing new life into the carding industry, by turning phished card data into mobile wallets that can be used online and at main street stores.

Independent Krebs Security

How Malicious Android Apps Slip Into Disguise

August 3, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, aleksandr eremin, anatsa, android malware, ars technica, Google Play, The Coming Storm, threatfabric, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 11:22:55 +0000

Researchers say mobile malware purveyors have been abusing a bug in the Google Android platform that lets them sneak malicious code into benign mobile apps and evade security scanning tools. Google says it has updated its app malware detection mechanisms in response to the new research.

MalwareBytes Security

Duo of Android dropper and payload target certain countries and app users

February 2, 2022 0 Comments "2fa authenticator", Android, android dropper, android malware, brata, brunhilda, c2, command & control, Google Play Store, ngrok, pradeo, project brunhilda, threatfabric, virtual network computing, vnc, vultur

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 13:32:37 +0000

A yet unnamed Android malware is spotted in Google’s Play Store. After profiling its target, it drops Vultur, a newish RAT.

Categories: Android

Tags: "2FA Authenticator"Android dropper android malware BRATA Brunhilda C2 command & control Google Play Store ngrok Pradeo Project Brunhilda ThreatFabric virtual network computing vnc vultur