Cyber threat actor Arid Viper, allegedly aligned with Hamas, has been linked to an Android spyware campaign that uses a fake dating app to gather sensitive data from victims, Cybersecurity firm Cisco Talos reported. The spyware hides on victim devices and requests permissions for potentially intrusive actions, such as recording audio and video. The campaign, that started no earlier than April 2022, targets Arabic-speaking users. It shares code similarities with a benign dating app called Skipped.

Russian Cybercrime Market Hub Transferring from RDP Access to Malware Stealer Logs to Access
A new evolution is underway in the Russian cybercrime ecosystem: market operators and threat actors are rapidly shifting from selling compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)