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Android updates hiding “Morpheus” malware: how hackers trick millions into giving up their data

The number of Android apps infected with malware keeps climbing. According to reports, millions of devices have been ...
SecurityWeek

China-Linked APT GopherWhisper Abuses Legitimate Services in Government Attacks

The China-linked APT GopherWhisper has been using legitimate services and various Go-based backdoors in attacks.

New ‘Pack2TheRoot’ flaw gives hackers root Linux access

A new vulnerability dubbed Pack2TheRoot could be exploited in the PackageKit daemon to allow local Linux users to install or ...

Massive Chrome Extension Scam Exposes 20,000 Users to Data Theft

Researchers linked 108 malicious Chrome extensions to a coordinated campaign that exposed about 20,000 users to data theft, ...
Android Police

Chrome’s new Gemini Skills are the perfect cure to prompt fatigue

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...
TechCrunch

Hack-for-hire group caught targeting Android devices and iCloud backups

Security researchers say they have identified a hack-for-hire group targeting journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East and North Africa. The hackers used phishing ...
GitHub

A command-line power tool for Twitter.

The CLI takes syntactic cues from the Twitter SMS commands, but it offers vastly more commands and capabilities than are available via SMS. Twitter API v1.1 requires OAuth for all of its functionality ...
TweakTown

Five Command-Line tools that fix Windows problems faster than clicking through settings

Sometimes when something breaks in Windows, I skip the Settings app and go straight to Command Prompt. Five built-in commands handle the bulk of common problems - repairing corrupted system files, ...
TechRepublic

875 Million Android Phones Face Risk Due to Hidden Chip Flaw

875 Million Android Phones Face Risk Due to Hidden Chip Flaw Your email has been sent Generated with Google’s Nano Banana 2. A locked Android phone is supposed to keep intruders out. But a newly ...
Defense One

NSA, Cyber Command get a permanent leader, ending 11-month gap

The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to lead Cyber Command and the National Security Agency in a dual-hatted capacity, giving the signals intelligence and hacking titans their first ...
TMCnet

ESET Research discovers PromptSpy, the first Android threat to use generative AI

PromptSpy is the first known Android malware to use generative AI in its execution flow. Google's Gemini is used to interpret on-screen elements on the compromised device and provide PromptSpy with ...
Computer Weekly

PromptSpy Android malware may exploit Gemini AI

An Android-specific malware targeting mobile device takeover appears to use generative AI (GenAI) services in its execution flows to maintain persistence on the victim’s smartphone, researchers at ...