Malware Targets 180 Banking, Financial and Crypto Apps, Displays Fake Screens To Capture PINs and Take Over Accounts: Cyble

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Meta's AI support chatbot helped hackers hijack Instagram accounts, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a video shared on Telegram, a hacker shows how they could take over an account by asking Meta's chatbot to switch the email associated with someone else's profile and then reset the password. The issue, which Meta says has since been patched, cropped up around the same time Barack Obama's White House account on Instagram was hacked. On Sunday, users noticed that the @obamawhitehouse account began posting images containing Iranian propaganda. Hackers appeared to have hijacked the Instagram accounts belonging to the US Space Force Chief Ma … Read the full story at The Verge.

A new Android banking trojan is targeting more than 180 banking, financial and cryptocurrency applications across 10 countries. The cybersecurity firm Cyble says the malware is called OverlayPhantom and is being distributed through malicious URLs that impersonate trusted applications. Cyble says the malware uses a two-stage infection chain, beginning with a dropper app that has […] The post Malware Targets 180 Banking, Financial and Crypto Apps, Displays Fake Screens To Capture PINs and Take Over Accounts: Cyble appeared first on The Daily Hodl.

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