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Beware !! These 22 Malware Apps in Playstore Drained Your Battery & Steal Personal Data – 2M Users Infected

Researchers discovered 22 malicious Android apps that uploaded in Google playstore with Sophisticated click fraud functionality affected around 2 million Android users. Some of the malicious apps are unnoticed for a month and year, some of the apps were uploaded in June 2018 and one of the malicious flashlight apps alone downloaded around 1 million […]

GPlayed – New Malware Posed as Google Play App to Spy & Steal Data From Your Entire Android Phone

Newly discovered android based GPlayed Malware posed as Google Play app with sophisticated futures to spy android phone and steal sensitive information. GPlayed malware contains various built-in capabilities and it is very similar to the Google play store App that label as “Google Play Marketplace”. One of the extremely powerful capability is to adapt after the deployment […]

Warning Signs of Your Smartphone Getting Hacked

It’s one of the worst feelings in the world having your computer hacked, hit with a virus and losing all your work. Now, think of how that would be if it was your smartphone. Most of us don’t really think of having our phone’s hacked, but it happens more than you’d think. It’s why we […]

Hackers using Android & iOS Spyware “Pegasus” to Conducting Massive Surveillance Operations in 45 Countries

New research reveals that Israel based NSO Group using powerful mobile based Pegasus Spyware to conducting massive surveillance in 45 countries across the globe. NSO Group is operating from Israel where they produce and sells a mobile phone spyware named as Pegasus to governments and private entities to perform massive Surveillance operation in order to gain […]

WiFi Broadcasts in All Version of Android OS Leaking Sensitive Data Including IP Addresses, BSSID, WiFi Network Name

WiFi Broadcasts in Android OS Leaking sensitive data from a user’s Android device and the details about all the application that running on the user’s device. All the version of Android running devices is affected by this vulnerability including  Amazon’s FireOS for the Kindle. It leaks Sensitive information such as WiFi network name, BSSID, local IP addresses, […]

MysteryBot – Powerful Android Banking Trojan Launch Keylogger, Overlay & Ransomware in Single Attack

Newly Discovered Android-based MysteryBot Trojan launches various attack such as overlay, keylogger, and Ransomware in a single attack to perform various malicious activities. Based on activities and behavior, researchers believe that MysteryBot Trojan is another powerful banking trojan that inherits LokiBot, both Android banker is running on the same C&C server. Also, MysteryBot Trojan might next version […]

InvisiMole – A Powerful Spyware Turn On Your Camera & Record Video, Audio, Take Picture

Newly discovered powerful InvisiMole Spyware attack targeted computer to turn on the video camera and record the videos, audio to hear whatever things happening to surround the victims and take the Picture. Also, it has the ability to steal the various sensitive information of the victim’s computer by closely monitoring the victims actvities. InvisiMole is one of […]

Hackers Earning Money from Invisible Ads using Android Trojan that Downloads 6.5 Million Times via Google Play

A powerful Android Trojan distributed through Google Play store apps that posed as Fashion and game apps to generate a huge revenue using malicious invisible ads. This Trojan distributed under several Google Play store apps which have been downloaded more than 6,500,000 times in total. Trojan detected as Android.RemoteCode.152.origin by Russian security firm Dr.web and it mainly […]

Are mobile devices insecure by nature?

Granted, not all that glitters is gold, and mobiles also come with some drawbacks in terms of the protection of information. There are a number of risks that users may face when trying to secure their information on mobiles and tablets.