Google ads push fake Google Authenticator site installing malware

Google has fallen victim to its own ad platform, allowing threat actors to create fake Google Authenticator ads that push the DeerStealer information-stealing malware. For years, malicious advertising (malvertising) campaigns have targeted the Google search platform, where threat actors place ads to impersonate well-known software sites that install malware on visitors’ devices. To make matters […]

Google Chrome adds app-bound encryption to block infostealer malware

Google Chrome has added app-bound encryption for better cookie protection on Windows systems and improved defenses against information-stealing malware attacks. As Chrome software engineer Will Harris explained in a blog post published today, Chrome currently uses the most robust techniques provided by each operating system to safeguard sensitive data such as cookies and passwords: Keychain services on macOS, […]

Android spyware ‘Mandrake’ hidden in apps on Google Play since 2022

A new version of the Android spyware ‘Mandrake’ has been found in five applications downloaded 32,000 times from Google Play, the platform’s official app store. Bitdefender first documented Mandrake in 2020, with the researchers highlighting the malware’s sophisticated spying capabilities and noting that it has operated in the wild since at least 2016. Kaspersky now […]