A new threat has emerged online targeting Android users in recent campaigns. The malware is an advanced variant of the previously known Octo Android malware, which now mimics popular apps like NordVPN and Google Chrome to trick users.

New Octo Android Malware Mimics NordVPN And Others In Recent Campaign

According to a recent analysis from ThreatFabric, new Octo2 malware is running active campaigns against Android users.

Specifically, Octo2 isn’t entirely a novel malware; rather, it’s the advanced variant belonging to the known “Octo” (ExoBotCompact) malware family. Octo first caught attention in 2019 as “ExoBotCompact” when it boasted the “lighter” variation of the previously known “ExoBot” Android trojan. Over the years, it continued advancing its malicious…

It’s the end of an era: Hoda Kotb announced that, after 17 years on the TODAY show, she’ll depart the morning show in early 2025.

The longtime anchor shared the news on September 26, surrounded by her TODAY colleagues and friends Al Roker, Savannah Guthrie, Jenna Bush Hager, Sheinelle Jones, and Craig Melvin, telling herself to “be cool” as she teared up.

“So I was doing the math and I realized that I have spent 26 years at NBC, 16 years on The Ten, and seven years with you. And I just turned 60,” Kotb told them, and the audience, referring to her August 9 milestone birthday.

“And it was such a monumental moment for me when I turned 60 years old, because I started thinking about that decade,” she continued. “Like, what does that…

A Facebook post sharing two photos of a young boy with cuts and bruises on his face claims he was “found walking behind a home” in Hartlepool. But this is a hoax. 

The post, which appears in a local community group says: “This little boy approximately 3 years old was found last night walking behind a home here in #hartlepool Officer Sam Jenson saved him and took him to the Police Station but no one has an idea where he lives, the neighbours don’t know him or how he got there. He says his mom’s name is Ella. Let’s flood our feeds so that this post may reach his family, thank you.”

This did not happen. 

For one thing, Cleveland Police, who are responsible for Hartlepool in County Durham, told Full Fact that the force does not have an officer by this name. 

And…