New Android malware can hijack bank calls and reroute you to hackers
Your bank is one of the last places left where you can call up the company and expect to get a human being on the other end, even if you have to wait on hold…
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Android Trojan that intercepts voice calls to banks just got more stealthy
Much of the new obfuscation is the result of hiding malicious code in a dynamically decrypted and loaded .dex file of the apps. As a result, Zimperium initially believed the malicious apps they were analyzing…
iOS 18.2 will let you change your default apps for calls, messaging, and more
Apple has a contentious relationship with allowing users to choose default apps on iPhone and iPad, and it has been the subject of a lot of legal action around the world. Imagine our surprise, then,…
Google calls for halting use of WHOIS for TLS domain verifications
Getty Images Certificate authorities and browser makers are planning to end the use of WHOIS data verifying domain ownership following a report that demonstrated how threat actors could abuse the process to obtain fraudulently issued…
Massive AT&T data breach exposes records of nearly all its customers’ calls and texts
AT&T has disclosed a massive data breach that affects nearly all of its customers. The stolen records, which AT&T says were “downloaded illegally from our workspace on a third-party cloud platform,” include every call and…
DOJ calls Apple’s privacy justifications an ‘elastic shield’ for financial gains
The U.S. Department of Justice sued Apple Thursday over monopolistic practices. The complaint accuses Apple of moulding its privacy and security practices in ways that benefits the company financially. One quote particularly jumps out where…
Nvidia CEO calls for “Sovereign AI” as his firm overtakes Amazon in market value
Nvidia / Benj Edwards On Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that every country should control its own AI infrastructure so it can protect its culture, Reuters reports. He called this concept “Sovereign AI,” which…
A password manager LastPass calls “fraudulent” booted from App Store
Getty Images As Apple has stepped up its promotion of its App Store as a safer and more trustworthy source of apps, its operators scrambled Thursday to correct a major threat to that narrative: a…
You can now take Webex calls from your couch with an Apple TV 4K
Update 1/31/24: The Webex app for Apple TV 4K (2nd generation) is now available. The rest of this article originally posted on October 24, 2023. Cisco kicked off its WebexOne conference on Tuesday with some big…