Malicious Apps Caught Secretly Turning Android Phones into Proxies for Cybercriminals

[ad_1] Apr 01, 2024NewsroomBotnet / Mobile Security Several malicious Android apps that turn mobile devices running the operating system into residential proxies (RESIPs) for other threat actors have been observed on the Google Play Store. The findings come from HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence team, which said the cluster of VPN apps came fitted with a…

Read More

New Malicious PyPI Packages Caught Using Covert Side-Loading Tactics

[ad_1] Feb 20, 2024NewsroomMalware / Supply Chain Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that were found leveraging a technique called DLL side-loading to circumvent detection by security software and run malicious code. The packages, named NP6HelperHttptest and NP6HelperHttper, were each downloaded 537 and 166 times, respectively,…

Read More