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BankBot-YNRK and DeliveryRAT: New Android Banking Threats

🔒 Cybersecurity researchers CYFIRMA and independent analyst F6 have disclosed two active Android trojans—BankBot‑YNRK and DeliveryRAT—that harvest financial and device data from compromised phones. BankBot‑YNRK impersonates an Indonesian government app, performs device fingerprinting and anti-emulation checks, abuses accessibility services to steal credentials and automate transactions, and communicates with a command server. DeliveryRAT, promoted via a Telegram bot, lures Russian users with fake delivery and marketplace apps and delivers malware-as-a-service variants that collect notifications, SMS and call logs and can hide their launchers. Users should avoid untrusted APKs, review permissions, and keep devices updated—Android 14 reduces some accessibility-based abuses.

AI-Powered Mobile Threats Elevate Need to Rethink Security

📱 The 2025 Verizon Mobile Security Index underscores growing danger as mobile devices account for the majority of global internet traffic and increasingly serve as primary attack surfaces. Check Point highlights the rise of AI-powered threats, persistent phishing, and human error that expand exposure. Organizations must rethink security architectures, strengthen endpoint controls, and adopt AI-aware defenses across apps, devices, and identities to reduce risk.

Is Your Phone Spying on You? Inside Modern Spyware

🔍 In this Unlocked 403 episode host Becks speaks with ESET malware researcher Lukas Stefanko to explain how modern spyware operates and why commonplace apps can become surveillance tools. They examine ESET’s discovery of BadBazaar, describe common infection vectors, persistence techniques and permissions abuse, and note that some tools can compromise devices without any user interaction. Lukas outlines practical detection signals and step‑by‑step removal advice. The conversation also points listeners to a prior episode for deeper Android threat analysis.