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The fraudsters are stealing a large sum of money from the victim’s bank accounts by taking the control of their mobile phones and then intercepting the texts messages sent by the banks. The fraudsters are again gathering as much info as possible on the victims and using a method we warned the public in the past named SIM splitting, to gain the access to bank accounts of people. This is the Money investigation found which one victim from the London lost £22,300 when these fraudsters raided their Santander accounts using the method. Two more victims had drained   £19,500  from their accounts after the criminals intercepted their bank’s text messages. How does this fraud work? Step 1: Initially the fraudsters have harvested as much as they can about the targetted individual. This includes intercepting their post, searching public information on the search engines/social media, tricking them into the installing of malware or buying the information from the Organised Crime Groups. Step 2: ...

If you own an Android smartphone, Beware! A new Android malware Gooligan that has already breached more than 1 Million Google accounts is infecting around 13,000 devices every day. Dubbed  Gooligan , the malware roots vulnerable Android devices to steal email addresses and authentication tokens stored on them. With this information in hands, the attackers are able to hijack your Google account and access your sensitive information from Google apps including Gmail, Google Photos, Google Docs, Google Play, Google Drive, and G Suite. Researchers found traces of Gooligan code in dozens of legitimate-looking Android apps on 3rd-party app stores, which if downloaded and installed by an Android user, malware starts sending your device’s information and stolen data to its Command and Control (C&C) server. "Gooligan then downloads a rootkit from the C&C server that takes advantage of multiple Android 4 and 5 exploits including the well-known VROOT (CVE-2013-6282) and Towelroot (CV...