And the unofficial sources of apps are a regular reptile house. There is just too much risk in downloading apps outside the official app stores.' A viper may sometimes make its way into those official walled gardens, but it's usually swiftly ejected. Trojan apps are found in the official play stores, but they are less likely and will be removed as soon as someone reports them. Just too many trojan apps taking excessive permissions to trust any app downloaded from anywhere. 'This is another example of why all phone apps should only be downloaded from the official app stores. Roger Grimes, Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4, urged users of any apps to use only official app stores. The site directed Apple users to the real RedAlert source, but Android users were sent to a site that served a malicious version of the app. The bogus website ('hxxps://redalertsme') differed by the single letter 's' from the legitimate RedAlert site ('hxxps://redalertme'). The researchers also found that the bogus app was flacked using domain impersonation.

Additional permissions requested by the malicious app include access to contacts, call logs, SMS, account information, as well as an overview of all installed apps.'

Cloudflare wrote, 'The malicious RedAlert version imitates the legitimate rocket alert application but simultaneously collects sensitive user data. They traced it to a knock-off of the legitimate RedAlert app, and they found that it had spyware functionality as well as the obvious panic-inducing disinformation. Russian hacktivist auxiliaries hit Belgian websites.īogus RedAlert app delivered spyware as well as panic.Ĭloudflare looked into the compromised RedAlert app that served false alarms of rocket attacks against Israeli users.A Russian credential-harvesting campaign.Ukrainian telecommunications providers hit by cyberattack.Allies update their security-by-design guide.Warning on Atlassian vulnerability exploitation.Valve implements additional security measures for Stream.Bogus RedAlert app delivered spyware as well as panic.

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