Researchers at cyber security firm Check Point have revealed that a new macOS malicious software, Banshee, managed to evade anti virus detection for more than two months by borrowing encryption schemes from Apple security tools. Forbes warned that the malicious software contained a "real and present danger" and the New York Post quoted Check Point as saying that more than 100 million Apple users could "become victims". However, endpoint security startup Dou...
Researchers at cyber security firm Check Point recently revealed that a new macOS malicious software, Banshee, managed to evade anti virus detection for more than two months by borrowing the encryption scheme of Apple's security tools. Forbes warned that the malicious software contained "real and present dangers", and the New York Post quoted Check Point as saying that more than 100 million Apple users could "become victims".
Web 3 bug bounty platform Immunefi has suspended white hat security company Trust Security for 90 days after accusing it of unjustly refusing to pay a bug bounty after discovering a serious vulnerability that could have led to the theft of funds. On November 12, Trust Security revealed on X that its bounty team had discovered a critical funds theft vulnerability on the forked mainnet of an unnamed project. The proof-of-concept for the vulnerability has been updated with Immunefi.
On September 9th, cryptocurrency security firm Harpie issued an Android malicious software alert. More than 280 Android apps were found to use optical character recognition (OCR) technology to steal wallet recovery phrases from images on users' devices. Harpie reminds users to take the following security measures: avoid installing apps outside the Google Play Store; ignore suspicious private messages or links; run regular Google Play Protect scans; and most importantly, avoid storing wallet reco...
On August 23rd, cyber security firm Moonlock warned that AMOS stealers targeting Mac users can now clone the Ledger Live software and may soon clone other wallet apps. According to an Aug. 5 report from cyber security firm Moonlock Lab, the program is resurgent, and the company found that it was being advertised through Google Adsense. In the ads, it masqueraded as popular MacOS programs, including the screen-sharing app Loom, the user interface design tool Figma, VPN TunnelBlic...