{"id":3852,"date":"2014-07-07T22:22:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T12:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2014-07-07T22:22:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T12:22:49","slug":"cross-platform-attacks-threaten-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/cross-platform-attacks-threaten-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-platform attacks threaten all your devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cross-platform-attack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3853\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cross-platform-attack-150x84.jpg\" alt=\"cross platform attack\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cross-platform-attack-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cross-platform-attack-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cross-platform-attack-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cross-platform-attack-98x55.jpg 98w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cross-platform-attack.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Cyber-criminals are now finding ways to infiltrate and infect every single online device you own.<\/p>\n<p>In their latest <a href=\"http:\/\/about-threats.trendmicro.com\/us\/mobile\/monthly-mobile-review\/2014-05-cross-platform-mobile-threats\" target=\"_blank\">mobile report<\/a>, Trend Micro reveals some recent examples of mobile apps that are not only capable of stealing information from infected mobile devices but which can then deliver a secondary malicious payload onto a PC connected to that device.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/about-threats.trendmicro.com\/us\/malware\/androidos_usbattack.a\">ANDROIDOS_USBATTACK.A<\/a>, a malicious app that not only can perform information theft routines on the affected device, but also downloads malware that triggers only when the device itself is connected to a PC via USB. While the end payload is the PC\u2019s microphone being turned into a wiretapping device, it could have easily sported much more damaging routines.<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/about-threats.trendmicro.com\/us\/malware\/troj_droidpak.a\">TROJ_DROIDPAK.A<\/a>, a Trojan that downloads and installs malicious apps onto any Android device connected to the affected PC. The apps are\u00a0malicious versions of online banking apps, which could compromise a user\u2019s online banking account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With this new wave of cross platform attacks the best cure is still prevention using \u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trendmicro.com.au\/au\/home\/products\/titanium\/max-security\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">good security solution<\/span><\/a> &#8211; which is available for almost every platform the cyber-criminals are targeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber-criminals are now finding ways to infiltrate and infect every single online device you own. In their latest mobile report, Trend Micro reveals some recent examples of mobile apps that are not only capable of stealing information from infected mobile devices but which can then deliver a secondary malicious payload onto a PC connected to that device. Some examples; ANDROIDOS_USBATTACK.A,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/cross-platform-attacks-threaten-devices\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824],"tags":[43,47,976,752],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-internet-security","tag-mobile-security","tag-online-threats","tag-trend-micro"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cross-platform attacks threaten all your devices - Tech Daily with Andy Wells<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/cross-platform-attacks-threaten-devices\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cross-platform attacks threaten all your devices - Tech Daily with Andy Wells\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cyber-criminals are now finding ways to infiltrate and infect every single online device you own. 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