Tag Archives: Malware

Apps In Google Play Store Found With Haken Malware

The Haken malware obtains sensitive data from victims and secretly signs them up for expensive premium subscription services. The eight apps that were found have since been removed. Users have collectively been downloaded 50,000 times. These apps were utilities and children’s games, including “Kids Coloring,” “Compass,” “qrcode,” “Fruits coloring book,” “soccer coloring book,” “fruit jump…

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Android Phones Vulnerable Due To Pulse Secure VPN

Hackers are exploiting existing vulnerabilities in Pulse Secure VPN and Android Phones. The flaw tracked as CVE-2019-1150, has been rated ‘Highly’ critical. This arbitrary read file vulnerability affects multiple versions of Pulse Connect Secure and Pulse Policy Secure. This flaw allows remote attackers to connect via HTTPS to an enterprise network without the requirement of…

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Hackers Using Discord to Steal Your Information With Malware

Researchers found that Hackers are injecting malware into Discord to steal your information. The Windows Discord application functionality is based on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This allows malware to modify its core files so that the client executes malicious behavior on startup.   This Discord malware is targeting data that can be obtained from the…

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Apple iTunes Bug Exploited To Deliver Ransomware

The Hackers have been exploiting the “unquoted path” flaw in the Bonjour updater in iTunes for Windows to deliver BitPaymer/iEncrypt ransomware. The Researchers from Morphinsec Labs have identified this flaw with Bonjour updater back in August the team from Morphisec immediately disclosed the vulnerability to Apple. Apple has recently patched the flaw for Windows. Windows…

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Google Warns Zero-Day Bug For Android Under Active Attack

Google has stated a warning of an Android zero-day flaw actively being exploited in the wild. This flaw impacts 18 Android models including Google’s flagship Pixel, Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi. Project Zero member Maddie Stone wrote in a technical post . which said the unpatched vulnerability(CVE-2019-2215) can be exploited in several ways. In one scenario, a…

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