Android Malware Campaign Leverages Money-Lending Apps to Blackmail Victims

Dec 15, 2022Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / A previously undocumented Android malware campaign has been observed leveraging money-lending apps to blackmail victims into paying up with personal information stolen from their devices. Mobile security company Zimperium dubbed the activity MoneyMonger, pointing out the use of the cross-platform Flutter framework to develop the apps. MoneyMonger “takes advantage…

Egypt’s Suplyd raises $1.6M to digitize restaurants supply chain • TechCrunch

Suplyd, a procurement platform for hotels, restaurants and catering (HoReCa) businesses in Egypt, has raised $1.6 million pre-seed funding from Endure Capital, Seedstars, Camel Ventures, Falak Startups, and a number of angel investors. Founded in January this year, Suplyd’s B2B platform brings efficiency in the supply chain operations for businesses in the food service industry…

Hacking Using SVG Files to Smuggle QBot Malware onto Windows Systems

Dec 15, 2022Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Endpoint Security Phishing campaigns involving the Qakbot malware are using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images embedded in HTML email attachments. The new distribution method was spotted by Cisco Talos, which said it identified fraudulent email messages featuring HTML attachments with encoded SVG images that incorporate HTML script tags. HTML…