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 on-device detection. Following their forensic … Read More

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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 takes advantage of a common … Read More

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Introduction Thousands of new malicious apps are being released for mobile devices every day. And thousands more variations of older malware are being released too. Unfortunately, many of these new/old threats are not being detected by the existing mobile malware technology. Organizations need next generation machine learning-based solutions that can effectively detect these unknown malware … Read More

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