{"id":1120,"date":"2024-08-27T11:46:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T11:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genialgate.com\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2024-08-28T13:56:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T13:56:50","slug":"psa-watch-out-for-phishing-attacks-with-fake-banking-app-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/27\/psa-watch-out-for-phishing-attacks-with-fake-banking-app-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA: Watch out for phishing attacks with fake banking app updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/genialgate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Fake-banking-app-updates.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">security<\/a> researcher has discovered a phishing attack intended to fool <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iPhone<\/a> users into installing what is claimed to be an update to their banking app.<\/p>\n<p>The attack works despite iOS protections because what is actually being \u2018installed\u2019 is a progressive web app, which involves no <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/app-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">App Store<\/a> vetting or warnings \u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"iphone,malware,security\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"964267\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/08\/27\/phishing-fake-banking-app-updates\/#more-964267\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A security researcher has discovered a phishing attack intended to fool iPhone users into installing what is claimed to be an update to their banking app. The attack works despite iOS protections because what is actually being \u2018installed\u2019 is a progressive web app, which involves no App Store vetting or warnings \u2026 more\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"http:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/genialgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}