Research by Aazim Bill SE Yaswant and Nipun Gupta While some financially motivated scams may seem simple on the surface, the truth of the matter is that cybercriminals are investing large amounts of money into strategies and infrastructure to scale up their malicious campaigns. Those investments are paying off as […]
Zimperium and Intertrust’s partnership offers best-in-class protection for edge devices in trusted data ecosystems Today, Zimperium and Intertrust announced a partnership to provide end-to-end security and data management for IoT devices, apps and media services operating in Zero Trust environments. Under the terms of the partnership, Intertrust will offer Zimperium’s […]
Supply Chain attacks are not a new problem, but their frequency has been increasing since 2013 when Target was breached. But the recent attacks on SolarWinds Orion, Kaseya VSA, Accellion, Microsoft have highlighted the fact that cybercriminals have shifted their focus from the primary targets to their suppliers. Why? […]
Update November 22, 2021: It has been determined that this specific campaign is no longer active. The command and control server has been taken down, and the infected devices are no longer under the control of the attackers. Many of the malware campaigns we have detected over the last year […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We are thrilled to announce Google has selected us to help ensure the safety of the millions of apps in the Google Play Store through its App Defense Alliance. As a member of the App Defense Alliance, Google will provide us access to mobile apps as they are being queued […]