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Google Chrome is getting a paid version with top-notch security features

April 12, 2024/in Mobile Security

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Google is revamping Chrome for businesses with Chrome Enterprise Premium, offering advanced security features for a monthly fee.
Chrome Enterprise Premium offers both a paid and free version. The paid version emphasizes enhanced security features such as data loss prevention and deep malware scans.
Chrome Enterprise Premium employs context-aware access controls to identify and mitigate potential data leaks, even from unauthorized apps.

Google is giving Chrome a security makeover for businesses. Called Chrome Enterprise Premium, it adds a bunch of advanced security features for those willing to pay monthly.

Google has been using enterprise Chrome for a while, allowing IT admins to control things like browser settings and the apps enterprise users use. Chrome Enterprise also offers data protection, malware guards, and phishing protection.

At $6 a month per user, Chrome Enterprise Premium beefs up security even more, recognizing that browsers are now where the big work goes down.

As users worldwide tap into Chrome on their phones and work devices and deal with various software versions and platforms, Google’s got their back. Chrome Enterprise Premium offers a bunch of tools to keep things locked down tight at every step.

Chrome Enterprise Premium comes in two flavors: Core, which is free, and Premium. Google is pitching this version as a web browser that doubles down on online safety, performing deep malware scanning, stopping data leaks in their tracks, and even letting you filter URLs based on what kind of websites they are.

However, the paid and free Chrome Enterprise versions have some big differences. The Premium tier provides data loss prevention and deep malware scans, but the Core (free) doesn’t. But even with Core, you still get basic stuff like phishing and malware protection.

There’s some sort of AI magic in there, too, with Google saying it’s using artificial intelligence to tackle malware and phishing head-on.

Chrome Enterprise Premium doesn’t stop there—it kicks Zero Trust up a notch with context-aware access controls. This means it can sniff out potential data leaks,…

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Watch out for these fake messaging apps on Android – they could be spying on you

April 11, 2024/in Mobile Security

Cybersecurity researchers from ESET found a handful of malicious Android apps that were spying on people and stealing sensitive information from their mobile devices.

In a press release shared with TechRadar Pro earlier this week, the researchers said that a new threat actor group, which they dubbed Virtual Invaders, was active from late 2021.

They created a number of Android apps, posing as communications products, which also came with the open-source XploitSPY malware. They called the campaign “eXotic Visit.”

Low download count

On the surface, the apps worked as intended, offering rudimentary communications services. However, behind the curtains lies malware that extracted people’s contact lists and files, the device’s GPS locations, file names listed in specific directories related to the camera, downloads, and different messaging apps such as Telegram, or WhatsApp. If some file names showed promise, the attackers could extract them as well, it was said.

To build the malware, the attackers seem to have taken the open-source Android Remote Access Trojan (RAT), XploitSPY, and modified it. While the apps offered rudimentary services, they came with a number of fake functionalities, too. Throughout the years, the attackers added new features, including better obfuscation techniques, emulator detectors, and more.

There were more than a dozen apps, ESET said, with the three biggest ones being called Dink Messenger, Sim Info, and Defcom. All were being distributed via standalone websites, as well as Google Play, but all were subsequently removed from Google’s app repository.

Still, the chances of being infected by any of these are relatively low. Apparently, the attackers only targeted individuals in Pakistan and India, and were quite specific in their attacks. In total, there were roughly 380 downloads from the websites and the Play store. Each app has had up to 45 downloads. The distribution methods were not discussed, but they were most likely phishing and social engineering.

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How Samsung Knox Suite enables best-in-class security and device management for financial services

April 9, 2024/in Mobile Security

icon of a clock Published Apr 9, 2024By: Jeannine DeFoe

Security and compliance are common concerns for IT leaders in the financial services industry — but over the last few years, they’ve become top priorities, with businesses facing a significant spike in cybersecurity threats.

Given the rise of the hybrid workplace, mobile devices and tablets allow employees to stay connected, whether they are in the office, out in the field or meeting with customers. However, financial services companies are subject to a range of regulatory requirements around data protection and security on their devices. This puts extra pressure on financial firms to secure their data, enforce IT policies and protect those devices against malicious actors and threats.

Still, research shows that about 25% of malware attacks target financial services companies. In 2023, 64% of IT and cybersecurity professionals in the financial industry were hit by ransomware. With many financial workers now splitting their working days between the office, home and client visits, IT leaders and their teams are facing increased pressure to secure mobile devices regardless of where they are.

Samsung Knox, which is built into Samsung Galaxy mobile devices, tablets and wearables, protects business data for financial services and other regulated industries with government-grade protection. Samsung Knox offers mobile security, unified endpoint management, and fraud and theft protection to businesses. The platform is trusted for robust, government-grade security, with its defense starting at the hardware level and continuing to protect against the most advanced security threats.

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Sunbird returns to allow Android users to use iMessage features including blue bubbles

April 8, 2024/in Mobile Security

Back in November, the Sunbird messaging app, which powered the Nothing Chats messaging app, shut down due to security concerns. The Sunbird app allowed Android users to use iMessage for messaging even down to having blue bubbles, high-quality images, read receipts, typing indicators, and more. While Sunbird promised users that they would have end-to-end encryption for user messages and files, users’ Apple login info was not encrypted obviously creating a huge security concern.

With 630,000 files vulnerable to this exploit, Sunbird decided to halt all of its services including its Play Store app. But Sunbird is re-launching its iMessage for Android app. In a press release, Sunbird announced that its messaging app has been relaunched and 165,000 Android users are on the waitlist. A small number of invitations have been disseminated.

Sunbird has updated its AV1 Message system which is now AV2 and it is designed to keep messages safe. As Sunbird notes, “Unencrypted messages are never stored anywhere on disk or in a database. When messages are decrypted to be passed to the iMessage and RCS/Google Messages network, they exist in that state only within memory for a limited period of time. In the front-end app, messages are only stored in an encrypted state within the in-app database.”

The bottom line as far as Sunbird is concerned is that “Since November, the Sunbird team has worked to migrate the iMessage implementation off of AV1 to the AV2 architecture. With the adoption of AV2, we believe that we’ve not only resolved the security vulnerabilities previously identified but also provided a secure and privacy-oriented foundation for Sunbird’s iMessage integration moving forward.”

You can join the Waitlist for Sunbird by tapping on this link and pressing on “Join the Waitlist.” You might wonder why this is necessary if Apple will support RCS later this year. The answer is simple; despite Apple adding support for RCS, those using the latter will still have green text bubbles. For those Android users concerned about getting teased for being green, outside of buying an iPhone, using Sunbird might be the next best solution.

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