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ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

Wade Mackey

Android Trojan Targets PayPal Users

December 12, 2018 by Connor Fairman Leave a Comment

What was supposed to be a battery optimization app from the android app store turned out to be a trojan. Once downloaded from a third-party android app store, the app changes an accessibility setting on an android phone to help thieves access the user’s paypal app and send money from the account to the thieves. The moral of this story is to never download apps from third-party markets.

 

https://threatpost.com/android-trojan-targets-paypal-users/139872/

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  • Week 01: Overview (7)
  • Week 02: TCP/IP and Network Architecture (18)
  • Week 03: Reconnaisance (17)
  • Week 04: Vulnerability Scanning (19)
  • Week 05: System and User Enumeration (17)
  • Week 06: Sniffers (17)
  • Week 07: NetCat and HellCat (15)
  • Week 08: Social Engineering, Encoding and Encryption (21)
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  • Week 10: Web Application Hacking (17)
  • Week 11: SQL Injection (15)
  • Week 12: Web Services (25)
  • Week 13: Evasion Techniques (8)
  • Week 14: Review of all topics (15)

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