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Millions of Flubot Malware Text Messages Descend on Finland  

Authorities in Finland are warning that millions of text messages with links to banking malware called Flubot are targeting Finnish mobile devices. So report Bloomberg and ThreatPost.

cyber security 3400555 640Aino-Maria Vayrynen, information security specialist at the National Cyber Security Center, said in an alert that the text messages ask Android users to install the malware while directing users of Apple devices to “other fraudulent material.”

Teemu Makela, chief information security officer at the nation’s biggest telecoms operator, Elisa Oyj, called the wave of attacks “extremely exceptional.”

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