The past year has witnessed significant technological advancements in the banking and financial management which have greatly improved convenience for customers while also increasing security risks that should not be taken lightly. The financial industry has transformed mobile devices into a personal ATM for customers, offering services ranging from payments […]
The landscape of modern banking and financial management has evolved with the rise of digital access to assets on a global scale. From payments to cryptocurrencies, banking to investments, the financial industry has turned the mobile phone into a personal ATM for each customer. But with this evolution and digital […]
Research and writeup by Aazim Yaswant and Nipun Gupta With the increase of mobile device use in everyday life, it is no surprise to see cybercriminals targeting these endpoints for financial crimes. Zimperium zLabs recently discovered an aggressive mobile premium services campaign with upwards of 10 million victims globally, and […]
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 […]
Two new active and aggressive Android Trojan variants have been discovered in the wild, impacting users taking advantage of two alternatives, non-Google Play app stores (“third-party” app stores). The discoveries are examples of how malware can spread through other sources outside of Google Play, and highlight the importance of sideloading […]
“Watering Hole” is a cyber attack strategy in which the victim is a particular group (organization, industry, or region). In this attack, the attacker typically observes which websites or applications the group often uses and infects one or more of them with malware. Eventually, some members of the targeted group […]
This Threat Research is about two variations of the zTorg mobile trojan recently discovered in Google Play by Kaspersky researcher, Roman Unucheck. In his blog post, Unucheck described the two variations as “Magic browser” and “Noise Detector”. According to Unucheck, “Magic browser” was uploaded to Google Play on May 15, 2017 and was […]
Several researchers have reported on the discovery of Hummer Trojan, as one calls it, or HummingBad as another calls it. Another said it was also known as Shedun. Zimperium’s customers are safe from this recently discussed threat even before these threats were published. The attack was detected through our z9 […]
Triada is now the “umbrella” name for the three mobile Trojan families – Ztorg, Gorpo and Leech – that, as we mentioned before, primarily exploit users of Android 4.4.4 and earlier versions of the mobile OS. In this blog post, the zLabs team presents specifically the findings from our testing […]
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