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Fake Apps Masked as Cryptocurrency, Trading, Banking Apps Duping iOS, Android Customers: Sophos Counterfeit apps are impersonating major financial firms and popular cryptocurrency trading platforms, including Barclays, Gemini, Bitwala, Kraken, Binance, BitcoinHK, Bittrex, BitFlyer, and TDBank. By Tasneem Akolawala | Updated: 14 May 2021 14:24 IST Photo Credit: Sophos Highlights Sophos found this issue while investigating fake app of Goldenway Group Schemes to download these fake apps are leveraged through dating sites Several counterfeit versions of popular cryptocurrency trading, stock trading and banking apps have been discovered by Sophos on iOS and Android platforms, designed to steal sensitive information. All those who download these fake apps can be potential victims of data theft. Counterfeit apps are impersonating major financial firms and popular cryptocurrency trading platforms, including Barclays, Gemini, B ....
About | Appleholic, (noun), æp·əl-hɑl·ɪk: An imaginative person who thinks about what Apple is doing, why and where it is going. Delivering popular Apple-related news, advice and entertainment since 1999. Social engineering, fake App Stores, hit iOS, Sophos warns Sophos spots a highly sophisticated series of attacks that illustrate some of the most common ways to attack iOS. Thinkstock I didn’t entirely mean to focus on Apple device security for most of this week (see here and here), but new Sophos research should interest any enterprise working to enhance security awareness. Breaking bad The research looks at 167 counterfeit apps used to scam iOS and Android users. Those that impact Apple’s mobile OS particularly stood out, as they show the increasing sophistication of malware authors. ....
Hundreds of Scam Trading Apps Abound May 13, 2021 11:24 GMT · Comment
Around 167 fake iOS and Android apps were recently found. Available as crypt or stock trading and banking apps, the tool may rob you of your hard earned money. The Sophos team was asked to investigate an application submitted by someone who had been a victim of the scam. The story begins on a dating website where the scammers tricked the victim into installing a cryptocurrency trading application. They managed to implement this scam by sending them a link that impersonated GoldenWay, a Hong Kong-based trading and investment firm. The fake app was available for both iOS and Android mobile operating systems. ....