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Google Play Early Access Abused to Push Thousands of Deceptive Android Apps
3+ day, 31+ min ago (467+ words) Bad actors are misusing Google Play's Early Access program to push deceptive apps that claim to offer money, rewards, casino winnings, and premium content. "The same feature that shields developers from unfair criticism also strips users of the earliest warning…...
Infostealer Logs Expose Replayable AI Tokens That Can Bypass MFA
4+ day, 23+ min ago (883+ words) Cybercriminals are hijacking artificial intelligence (AI) user accounts via information stealer logs to create "stolen keys" that grant illicit access to tools from model providers like Google, Anthropic, and others. Information stealers like Lumma Stealer or Vidar are equipped to…...
ChatGPT Flaw Let a Planted Prompt Send a Victim's Gmail Data to Another Account
5+ day, 46+ min ago (813+ words) Check Point Research said in a report published today that a single instruction planted in a ChatGPT conversation could cause ChatGPT to quietly work for an attacker while answering the user's question as usual. In the company's proof of concept,…...
WeChat Zero-Click Worm Took Over Accounts on iPhone and Android via Incoming Calls
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (733+ words) Researchers at the security firm Calif have built a worm that takes over a WeChat account via an incoming call and demonstrated it spreading among three test phones. The person being called does not have to answer or touch their…...
BengalSEO Poisons Bing Search Results to Deliver MayaBot and Tech Support Scams
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (1052+ words) Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a sprawling search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that paves the way for malware deployment and tech support scams. The campaign, discovered by the DFIR Report in March 2026, has been codenamed BengalSEO. It has…...
Authorities Turn Sality's P2P Network Against Itself, Cutting Off New Malware Payloads
1+ week, 4+ day ago (937+ words) The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the takedown of a long-standing peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as Sality as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation. "Cybercriminals, botnets, and malware are a clear and present danger to our nation's security…...
Fake Apple Support AI Calls Target Stolen-Device Owners for Passcodes and 2FA Codes
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1096+ words) Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform built to strip Apple's Activation Lock from stolen devices, using rented AI voice agents that call theft victims posing as Apple Support and ask for their device passcode. SOCRadar Threat…...
Phishing 3.0: The Fight Moves to Agent Versus Agent
3+ week, 4+ day ago (858+ words) Most email defenses still do the job they did a decade ago. Scan the message, look for something malicious, block it. That worked when the danger sat in the payload, a bad link or an attachment. It stopped working when…...