A new variant of the Triada Trojan has been discovered pre-installed on Android devices, enabling data theft from the moment the device is set up, says antivirus software developer Kaspersky. The researchers detected more than 2,600 infections in Russia within a two-week period in March 2025. To protect against malware, experts recommend buying smartphones from authorised distributors and installing security solutions like Kaspersky for Android immediately.

Mandiant warns of attacks on newly-disclosed Ivanti remote takeover threat
Google’s Mandiant team has issued an alert about a remote code execution flaw in the Ivanti Connect Secure VPN platform. The vulnerability, designated CVE-2025-22457, is