Over the past few years, cases of digital arrest fraud, phishing, impersonation scams, and more have sharply increased.
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Google has launched this new real -time scam detection feature at a time when online and phone-based fraud has become one of the country’s biggest consumer threats, particularly for children, teens, and elderly users who are routinely targeted by scammers.
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The new feature was announced today at the company’s ‘Safe and Trusted AI’ event, addressing growing concerns over fraudulent phone activity targeting individuals across India.
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The feature is aimed at protecting users from the growing menace of scam calls in the country and helping them spot suspicious conversations before they fall victim.
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This malware shows that encryption 🔐 is only as strong as the device it runs on. A fully compromised endpoint can defeat even the strongest E2EE.

Look where mobile malware are heading towards. Yet smartphone users are reluctantly casual about end point security.
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📱Review Admin Rights: Regularly check which apps have "Device Administrator" privileges and revoke any that are unnecessary or suspicious.

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⚓ Inspect Permissions: Be extremely cautious granting apps Accessibility Service permissions, especially if the app is not a dedicated accessibility tool. This is the primary vector for Sturnus's screen monitoring and chat theft.
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🛡️ Defensive Action:

Avoid Sideloading: Only download apps from the official Google Play Store. Sturnus is currently distributed via malicious apps like "Google Chrome" and "Preemix Box."
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⚡Unstoppable: It actively monitors user actions and, if the user navigates to settings screens that could disable its administrative rights, the malware automatically navigates away to prevent its removal.

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👻 Stealth and Persistence Tactics
Fake Update Screen: To conceal malicious actions, Sturnus displays a full-screen overlay that mimics an Android OS update screen, blocking visual feedback while the trojan works in the background.
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📊 Impact: Attackers can read private conversations, steal banking credentials via overlay attacks (fake login screens), and perform full device takeover via Virtual Network Computing (VNC).

Targets: Financial institutions across Southern and Central Europe.
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Instead, it uses Android's accessibility and display-capture services to record the screen and capture UI interactions after the messages are decrypted and displayed to the user.
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💥 The Threat Breakdown: Screen Capture After Decryption
The Spyware: Sturnus is a sophisticated banking trojan that uses a unique tactic to defeat End-to-End Encryption (E2EE).

How it Works: It doesn't crack the encryption key.
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In this video, I'll break down what Autonomi actually is: an autonomous network that turns everyday devices into the world's largest decentralized storage system. No servers. No monthly subscriptions. No Big Tech middleman. Just you and your data.
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What if we could combine all that wasted capacity into one giant, encrypted hard drive that anyone could use? That's exactly what Autonomi is. And it's not science fiction. It's live, it's real, and it's changing how we think about the internet.
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Digital breaches on infrastructure (shipping, utilities, defense) are now pre-attack intelligence platforms designed to enable destruction, not just theft.

This represents a fundamental evolution in warfare for critical global commerce and military logistics.
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This real-time visual intel was used to assess where missiles hit and improve precision during widespread missile attacks against the city.

⚠️ Why It Matters:

The line between digital espionage and physical warfare has officially dissolved.

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