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ABCsoup: The Malicious Adware Extension with 350 Variants

What can ABCsoup do? Recently Zimperium discovered and began monitoring the growth of a wide range of malicious browser extensions with the same extension ID as that of Google Translate, deceiving users into believing that they have installed a legitimate extension. Similar to app spoofing and cloning, these malicious applications […]

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The State of Browser Extension Malware

It is time for us to change how we think about malware. No longer is it limited to one specific operating system or device type. Like with phishing attacks, malware developers have been working on malware that can impact a broader range of systems to increase the number of potential […]

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BRATA Android Trojan Returns with Fury

Marking its most aggressive comeback to the Android ecosystem since its discovery in 2019, the BRATA Android malware has targeted global victims and their banking applications with new tricks up its sleeve. First discovered targeting Brazilian Android users in 2019 by Kaspersky, the remote access trojan (RAT) has been updated, [...]
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FlyTrap Android Malware Compromises Thousands of Facebook Accounts

A new Android Trojan codenamed FlyTrap has hit at least 140 countries since March 2021 and has spread to over 10,000 victims through social media hijacking, third-party app stores, and sideloaded applications. Zimperium’s zLabs mobile threat research teams recently found several previously undetected applications using Zimperium’s z9 malware engine and […]

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Flubot vs. Zimperium

Over the past few weeks, reports of the newest aggressive malware family to impact Android devices have made the rounds. Flubot, the credential and banking malware family, uses SMS phishing techniques to propagate to its victims, purporting to be various vendors and delivery services. The group behind this aggressive malware […]

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The Unpatchable Checkra1n Exploit

Today, the “unpatchable” jailbreak known as  Checkra1n (Device Compatibility) was officially released and generally available. Checkra1n is unprecedented in potential impact with millions of devices at risk as a result of the extensive device and iOS targets. While this should concern anyone using any of the targeted devices or iOS […]

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