Tag: phone
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Foreign Spyware Found on Phones of Top Russian Officials
Russian authorities have disclosed a suspected large-scale cyber espionage operation targeting the mobile devices of senior government officials, raising fresh concerns over advanced spyware campaigns and mobile surveillance threats. The Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Tuesday that it had identified and disrupted an alleged effort by foreign intelligence agencies to deploy malicious software on…
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Demystifying Claude: Signal vs. Speculation
What Claude Mythos Reveals About AI Capability, Control and Risk A researcher’s phone buzzed with an email from an AI that wasn’t supposed to have internet access. The real story isn’t about rogue machines; it’s about what happens when AI capability outpaces our ability to interpret, validate and govern it. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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These special phone and app features can help protect you from spyware
Apple, Meta, and Google offer special security modes that provide your devices more secure against targeted spyware attacks. Here are how those modes work, what they do, and how to switch them on. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/23/you-dont-have-to-click-anything-to-get-hacked-anymore-heres-how-to-fight-back/
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Trump Mobile phone provider reportedly leaking customer data
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/trump-mobile-phone-provider-leaking-customer-data
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Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, including phone numbers and home addresses
President Trump’s branded cell phone maker and cell provider said the exposure was linked to a third-party platform, and was evaluating whether it needs to notify customers. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/trump-mobile-confirms-it-exposed-customers-personal-data-including-phone-numbers-and-home-addresses/
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‘Creepy’ Listening Tool for Targeted Ads Didn’t Actually Work, FTC Says
Three firms will pay nearly $1 million for selling “Active Listening” technology that they claimed tapped people’s phones for advertising. The FTC alleges the “tech” was just pricey email lists. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/creepy-listening-tool-for-targeted-ads-didnt-actually-work-ftc-says/
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‘Creepy’ Listening Tool for Targeted Ads Didn’t Actually Work, FTC Says
Three firms will pay nearly $1 million for selling “Active Listening” technology that they claimed tapped people’s phones for advertising. The FTC alleges the “tech” was just pricey email lists. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/creepy-listening-tool-for-targeted-ads-didnt-actually-work-ftc-says/
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Two Americans plead guilty to assisting India-based tech support scam centers
Adam Young, 42, and Harrison Gevirtz, 33, pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony after they were accused of offering phone numbers, call routing services, call tracking tools and call forwarding services to India-based telemarketing fraudsters. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/two-americans-plead-guilty-india-call-center-scams
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Spanish police ‘systematically’ hid cryptophone intercepts from courts, claims ex chief
Former Spanish police chief, on trial for drug trafficking, claims that UK and Columbian police assisted in creating fictitious intelligence reports to hide use of intercept from encrypted phone networks Sky ECC and Anom First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366643318/Spanish-police-systematically-hid-cryptophone-intercepts-from-courts-claims-ex-chief
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US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip
People who travelled to Beijing for a summit between the United States and China had to throw away items they received during the trip before boarding Air Force One, presumably for security reasons. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/us-orders-travelers-on-air-force-one-to-throw-away-gifts-pins-and-burner-phones-after-china-trip/
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Google’s Default 15GB Free Storage Is Ending for Some New Accounts
Google is testing a change that gives some new accounts 5GB by default, with the full 15GB unlocked only after phone verification. The post Google’s Default 15GB Free Storage Is Ending for Some New Accounts appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-google-15gb-storage-phone-verification/
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Thieves unlock stolen iPhones using cheap tools sold on Telegram
Helping a friend recover a stolen phone, Infoblox researchers uncovered a thriving Telegram-based underground marketplace selling unlocking tools and phishing infrastructure … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/15/stolen-iphone-unlocking-tools-telegram-groups/
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FCC Robocall Crackdown Raises Privacy Concerns Over Mandatory ID Checks
The FCC’s proposed robocall crackdown could force carriers to verify customer identities, raising privacy concerns over anonymous phone use. The post FCC Robocall Crackdown Raises Privacy Concerns Over Mandatory ID Checks appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-fcc-robocall-crackdown-privacy-id-checks/
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The scam economy has found its AI upgrade
Scam attempts continue to reach consumers via email, text messages, social media, online advertising, and phone calls. The volume of exposure has remained stable over the past … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/11/f-secure-ai-scam-risks-report/
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Product showcase: NetGuard open-source firewall for Android
NetGuard is a free, open-source firewall for Android phones and tablets that provides users with a simple way to block internet access. Android does not allow VPN services to … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/08/product-showcase-netguard-open-source-firewall-android/
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CloudZ RAT Abuses Windows Phone Link to Steal OTPs
Cisco Talos discovered the CloudZ RAT exploiting Microsoft Phone Link to intercept SMS-based OTPs from Windows endpoints. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/cloudz-rat-abuses-windows-phone-link-to-steal-otps/
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Fake Call History Apps on Google Play Steal Payments, Hit 7.3M+ Downloads
28 fake “call history” utilities on Google Play, collectively installed more than 7.3 million times, have been exposed as subscription scams that generate fabricated logs instead of real phone records, with several also bypassing Google’s official billing system to make refunds harder for victims. The CallPhantom apps advertise an impossible service: detailed call histories, SMS…
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Scammers Exploit Disposable VoIP Numbers to Bypass Reputation Blocking
New tactics used by threat actors who embed phone numbers in scam emails as a key indicator of compromise (IOC), revealing how attackers exploit VoIP infrastructure to evade detection and scale fraud operations. Telephone-oriented attack delivery (TOAD) remains a dominant phishing technique, in which victims are lured to call attacker-controlled numbers rather than clicking malicious…
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CallPhantom Android scam reached 7.3 million downloads on Google Play
Scams targeting Android users in India and across the Asia-Pacific region have grown around a long-standing curiosity gap: the desire to look up call records tied to a phone … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/07/callphantom-android-scam-google-play/
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Police wrongly identified solicitor Fahad Ansari as Hamas member during Schedule 7 phone seizure
Tags: phoneA police officer wrongly described a solicitor acting for Hamas in an appeal against its proscribed status in the UK as a Hamas member during Schedule 7 phone seizure First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366642804/Police-wrongly-identified-solicitor-Fahad-Ansari-as-Hamas-member-during-Schedule-7-phone-seizure
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Attacks Abuse Windows Phone Link to Steal Texts & Bypass 2FA
In hard-to-detect attacks, hackers are dropping the CloudZ RAT and a fresh plugin, Pheno, to hijack the Windows-based bridge between PCs and smartphones. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/attacks-abuse-windows-phone-link-texts-bypass-2fa
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CloudZ Malware Abuses Phone Link to Steal SMS OTPs
Cisco Talos uncovers CloudZ RAT and Pheno plugin abusing Microsoft Phone Link to intercept SMS OTPs First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cloudz-rat-pheno-phone-link-otp/
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CloudZ RAT Exploits Microsoft Phone Link to Steal SMS OTPs
CloudZ is a new modular remote access trojan that abuses Microsoft’s built”‘in Phone Link feature to steal SMS one”‘time passwords (OTPs) and other mobile notifications directly from Windows PCs, without infecting the phone itself. Microsoft Phone Link (formerly “Your Phone”) is integrated into Windows 10 and 11 to mirror smartphone SMS messages, application notifications, call…
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Insights into the clustering and reuse of phone numbers in scam emails
Talos has recently started to collect and gather intelligence around phone numbers within emails as an additional indicator of compromise (IOC). In this blog, we discuss new insights into in-the-wild phone number reuse in scam emails. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/insights-into-the-clustering-and-reuse-of-phone-numbers-in-scam-emails/
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Windows Phone Link Exploited by CloudZ RAT to Steal Credentials and OTPs
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an intrusion that involved the use of a CloudZ remote access tool (RAT) and a previous undocumented plugin dubbed Pheno with the aim of facilitating credential theft.”According to the functionalities of the CloudZ RAT and Pheno plugin, this was with the intention of stealing victims’ credentials and potentially one-time…
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Google expands Android Binary Transparency to counter supply chain attacks
Supply chain attacks on mobile software have grown alongside the expanding role of phones in daily life, from payments to government IDs to AI features. Google is responding … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/06/google-android-binary-transparency/
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Stealthy malware abuses Microsoft Phone Link to siphon SMS OTPs from enterprise PCs
Multi-stage infection chain: The intrusion begins with an unknown initial access vector, followed by the execution of a malicious file disguised as a ScreenConnect update, Talos said.The initial payload is a Rust-compiled loader using filenames such as “systemupdates.exe,” which drops a .NET loader disguised as a text file in a system directory, the post said.Persistence…
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CloudZ malware abuses Microsoft Phone Link to steal SMS and OTPs
A new version of the CloudZ remote access tool (RAT) is deploying a previously unseen malicious plugin called Pheno that hijacks the Microsoft Phone Link connection to steal sensitive codes from mobile devices. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudz-malware-abuses-microsoft-phone-link-to-steal-sms-and-otps/
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The fake IT worker problem CISOs can’t ignore
Tags: access, ai, breach, business, captcha, cio, ciso, compliance, computer, control, credentials, crowdstrike, data, detection, edr, endpoint, fedramp, fraud, gartner, iam, identity, jobs, linkedin, mitigation, monitoring, network, north-korea, office, phone, risk, skills, tool, training, zero-trustWhat to do if you suspect a fake IT worker: When a CIO suspects a fake IT worker, next steps are important as the issue shifts from recruitment to insider risk management.During his time at MongoDB, George Gerchow, IANS faculty advisor and Bedrock Data CSO, oversaw the investigation after the company detected it had unknowingly…
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Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someone
Office work in 2026 runs through a stack of mobile apps that sit on the same phones people use for banking, messaging family, and tracking their location. Ten of the most … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/04/workplace-apps-data-collection-privacy/