Mobile Banking Apps & "AdMobService"

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The screenshot is from "Ad Detector" by krow.
AdMobService is detected on online banking apps for Personal Banking Services & Products | Capital One and Banking, Investing, Home Loans & Auto Finance | Ally.

Did ALLY & COF sell out their customers to the online advertising cartel, or what?

 

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https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-block-admob-on-android

Google AdMob - Mobile App Monetization

Android.AdMob | Symantec

Using the AdMob Service - RAD Studio

How To Remove Android.AdMob (Instructions)

 

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More malware: "Claim" & "ERR_SSL_VERSION_INTERFERENCE"

 

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More screenshots of "Claim" malware ("com.april.easyclaim") from Ghost Commander on Android®. Services, Shortcuts, etc. A bunch of law-related junk to impart a sheen of legitimacy.



https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.april.easyclaim

Maliciously installed as drive-by download.

More US "ex-pat" junk.

APRIL Travel Protection | APRIL International

info.expat@april-international.com

Stupid, because Alaska is heavily targeted by malicious advertisers as a US "ex-pat" market, despite the fact that the State of Alaska is part of the United States, and there are no realistic plans for secession, as the local economy remains dependent on a strong US military presence, aside from tourism and oil.

 

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The "Claim" app showed up again, as an overlay, screenscraping and intercepting the Google Chrome browser.

 

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I already mentioned the Capital One malware.

Capital One Data Theft Impacts 106M People — Krebs on Security

 

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More malware: "Lyon" related to "April"

"com.adl.flyon"

 

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Brian Krebs is beathing fire on Capital One. Amazon is reportedly involved.

What We Can Learn from the Capital One Hack — Krebs on Security

 

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Regulating International Trade in Commercial Spyware - Schneier on Security

A Proposed Response to the Commercial Surveillance Emergency

And they're playing "law" games in civvie court: “Who killed Khashoggi?”

The tired old corporate game of regulate, regulate, regulate — regulations that only raise the barrier of entry to the tech cartel, while leaving the old-money tech corporations grandfathered in.