The recent campaign is linked to the Satacom downloader, a notorious malware family active since 2019 and mainly delivered via malvertising placed on third-party websites.
Globally, the most popular apps on Android from May 2022 to April 2023 included YouTube (33%), TikTok (18%) and WhatsApp (18%). Roblox took fourth place (7%).
According to the cybersecurity firm, the study revealed that although ChatGPT knows a great deal about phishing and can guess the target of a phishing attack, it had high false positive rates of up to 64 percent.
The findings reveal that the use of ChatGPT as a helpful virtual ‘boost’ is already well underway, with 75% of all dating app users saying they would be exploring the use of ChatGPT to deliver the perfect chat up line.
Kaspersky said that the number of cryptocurrency-related phishing attacks prevented by its anti-phishing systems increased by 40% in 2022 compared to the previous year, with over 5 million attacks being stopped.
The $81-million Bangladesh Bank heist back in 2016 is an example of a successful cyber attack, which happened on the first day of Lunar New Year, a national holiday in the Philippines and the rest of Asia.
