Warning as millions of phones attacked with dangerous malware.
Updated on September 26 with new report into increased threats from mobile malware, with Android again falling significantly behind iOS.now hitting users, and Play Protect soon to be enhanced with Android 15’s live threat detection. All this is intended to close the gap to iOS and the locked down iPhone ecosystem.
TrickMo is an evolution of the infamous TrickBot, again with more advanced obfuscation and proactive masking from analysis to hinder discovery. Again TrickMo was first identified back in 2019, and so we see the common pattern again, as these threats evolve and harden as the constant game of cat and mouse continues, as the various defenses put in place around phones and stores improve.Again, not something you want on your phone.
Talking of new threats, a third report into new Android malware in short succession has just been released. Again, continuing the theme,warns that a new Octo variant is targeting users while “masquerading as masquerading as Google Chrome, NordVPN, and Enterprise Europe Network applications.” Again as elsewhere, Octo2 uses a fraudulent “Google” notification pop-up to trick Android users into bypassing device restrictions to enable the malware to run. Unsurprisingly, material changes have been made in this latest iteration—but the intent remains to steal app-specific banking credentials through targeted campaigns.
Do not grant permissions to an app that it should not need: torches and star-gazing apps don’t need access to your contacts and phone. And never grant accessibility permissions that facilitate device control unless you have a need.
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