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BRATA Android Trojan Returns with Fury

Marking its most aggressive comeback to the Android ecosystem since its discovery in 2019, the BRATA Android malware has targeted global victims and their banking applications with new tricks up its sleeve. First discovered targeting Brazilian Android users in 2019 by Kaspersky, the remote access trojan (RAT) has been updated, [...]
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FlyTrap Android Malware Compromises Thousands of Facebook Accounts

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 […]

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Flubot vs. Zimperium

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 […]

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The Unpatchable Checkra1n Exploit

Today, the “unpatchable” jailbreak known as  Checkra1n (Device Compatibility) was officially released and generally available. Checkra1n is unprecedented in potential impact with millions of devices at risk as a result of the extensive device and iOS targets. While this should concern anyone using any of the targeted devices or iOS […]

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Malicious Websites Put iOS Devices At Risk

In an excellent and deep blog analysis, Ian Beer of Google’s Project Zero outlines five separate iOS exploit chains that were found on a small collection of hacked websites. The hacked sites were being used in indiscriminate watering hole attacks against their visitors, using iOS 0-day. (For another watering hole […]

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What exactly is a mobile ______ attack?

Mobile devices contain or have access to the same information as traditional endpoints. While billions of dollars have been spent protecting and securing traditional endpoints, very little has been invested to protect mobile device endpoints. Attackers work on the same model as any other business: where do they get the […]

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The State of Mobile Device Threats: 2019 H1 Mobile Threat Report

As the worldwide leader in mobile threat defense (MTD), no company protects more enterprise mobile devices than Zimperium. As a result, we have incredibly rich and unmatched forensic data about mobile device, network, phishing and app risks and attacks from all around the world.  Based on popular demand, Zimperium held […]

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