Promon's specialty is app security. In a blog and video posted on its corporate site, Promon showed how it set up a free wi-fi hotspot near a Tesla Supercharger station and ran a promotion ...

It’s the “evil twin” to an earlier bug of the same name, according to Norwegian security firm Promon, which discovered both vulnerabilities six months apart. StrandHogg 2.0 works by tricking ...

The vulnerability allows malicious apps to masquerade as legitimate apps that targets have already installed and come to trust, researchers from security firm Promon reported in a post.

Strandhogg 2.0 superficially resembles the earlier Strandhogg Android flaw that Promon disclosed in December 2019. Both Strandhoggs (the name comes from a Viking term for beach raids) let malware ...

Promon said it first identified StrandHogg after being informed by a partner security company that “several banks in the Czech Republic had reported money disappearing from customer accounts.” ...

According to the security firm Promon, StrandHogg affects all Android versions, even a fully updated Android device (as of when we wrote this article), and doesn’t require root access to work.

The new vulnerability discovered by Promon security researchers was named StrandHogg and it can be exploited without the need of rooting the device. Once exploited, it allows malicious apps to ...

Mobile app security provider Promon has uncovered a never-before-seen Android banking malware. Dubbed Snowblind, it uses a novel technique to exploit Android OS functionalities and compromise ...

Researchers at Norwegian security firm Promon have discovered a serious Android vulnerability which can be exploited to steal login credential, access messages, track location and more.

A recent analysis of the 150 top Android apps by Norwegian cybersecurity firm Promon found that 144 of them could be successfully configured to operate within the controlled testing environment of ...

According to new research from the app protection firm Promon and its partner Wultra, more than 60 fake apps masquerading as the popular online multiplayer game have been discovered online.

It employs a combination of app-based tactics and social engineering to target banking customers. Writing in an advisory published today, Promon’s Security Research team said it received a sample from ...