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It is once again highlighted in the news, the need for Android users to only source their apps from the official Google Play Store. This is in the wake of Google’s removal of a fake DApp MetaMask from Google Play, as it is loaded by ‘Clipper’, a known trojan that steals cryptocurrency wallet addresses. Google […]
Researchers at ESET have discovered a new strain of cryptocurrency-stealing malware dubbed the ‘Clipper’ on Google Play Store. The findings were reported to the Play Store team which quickly took down the app on February 1st. Clipper was found hidden inside an Android app which was impersonating a legitimate service known as MetaMask — a browser extension which allows Ethereum-based apps to run on a […]
We usually ask you not to opt for free VPN’s, especially on your Android device. Only a while ago, we came across a study which revealed that top free VPN apps on the Google Play Store come loaded with malware and tend to leak data. With that being said, you can put faith on free VPN if it’s […]
Chinese company Xiaomi has a plethora of categories to offer to the users. However, there are many products unavailable in India and users had to take help from the third-party apps to get his or her hands on some. Making this easy and convenient, Xiaomi has introduced a new cross-border online portal, called ShareSave in India. The […]
Security measures are not the only ones seeing improvements! Malicious apps are also figuring out new ways to enhance its working, and one such Android malware proves this. According to a report by ArsTechnica, a new Android malware makes use of the motion sensors of Android smartphones to hide itself before infecting the device. The method used […]
Dangerous spyware apps discovered form the Google play store that posed as legitimate apps and almost 100,000 users downloaded and affected these malicious apps from 196 countries. Based on the Current mobile-based attacks, Android Platform is one of the biggest Target for Cyber Criminals to spying and Steal the personal information around the globle. There […]
Reliance Jio, in addition to its several apps, has launched yet another app, going by the name JioBrowser in India. The JioBrowser app is touted to be one of India’s first browsing apps intended for Indian users. The new app provides users with important news, trending events, videos, and much more all at a single […]
Google continues its quest to keep Android users safe by actively banning apps they think will harm its users. This time around, a batch of 22 apps was deleted by the search giant from the Google Play Store. Unfortunately, the aggregate download of the apps reached more than two million downloads prior to the takedown. […]
According to a report by Sophos Labs, around 22 click fraud apps were deleted from the Google Play Store last month. With over 2 million downloads, the malicious apps impersonated as Apple devices to advertisers to extract a premium. The apps which had the click fraud script received instructions from a command and control server […]
Remember Allo? The used to be Google’s answer to Apple’s iMessage in the area of instant messaging will enter the digital museum, joining Google Plus, Google Buzz, Google Talk, iGoogle before it. Google has lost the war they waged against iMessage, there is still no centralized pre-installed instant messaging app as good as iPhone’s iMessage. […]
Google for a decade now has been keeping with its promise of securing Android as they see fit. The search giant has introduced a huge permission system change in Marshmallow, version 6.0 which gave the end-user granular control with the permissions an app receives. Those old versions from Lollipop to Ice Cream Sandwich, Google has […]
It seems like Google’s crackdown on developers and refining the Play Store was only a drop in the bucket; the problem seems much bigger than anticipated. Today, a security researcher at ESET, Lukas Stefanko, called out thirteen Google Play Store apps which were originally malware disguising themselves under the name of the driving game for Android. The Android […]
For those that don’t want to pay for HD content, they end-up using gray-area apps to accomplish the same thing. However, aside from the user-made free content on Youtube, there are more questionable sources on the Internet that covers free HD content than legitimate and safe sources. One such app that went to the dark […]
Google employees from the CEO to staff level developers have no history of getting phished, socially engineered or data breached. Not because all of them are the superhuman genius that will never be scammed by naughty cybercriminals, far from it as Googlers are also human. The secret is the mandatory use of Titan Security Keys, […]
Cyber Criminals uploaded around 130 malicious Android apps on Google play store that mimics as various well-known applications to generate illegal revenue by promoting paid mobile services. Hackers distributing malicious trojan file as an official application on the “Eldorado” trade network via Google Play store using other software. In this case, researchers uncovered two modified […]
It is fairly common knowledge for many tech-savvy people that the Apple App Store has strict app publishing policies compared to the Google Play Store, Windows Store and Amazon Store. There are certain app categories that are literally banned from being published, the likes of console emulator apps and cheating-related apps. Apple also removes apps […]
Google removed around 145 apps from the Google Play store that infected by Windows Malware which are not developed to infect the Android platform but for windows OS devices. Removed APK files are infected while developers are creating these apps in compromised windows platform where attackers infect the applications with Windows-based keylogger. These types of […]
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 […]
Cyber security researchers have reportedly discovered what they think is the first Krotin-based malware affecting the Android OS. The discovery has been made by researchers at Trend Micro; a Trend Micro blog post on the same says- “We spotted a malicious app (detected by Trend Micro as ANDROIDOS_BKOTKLIND.HRX) that appears to be the first developed […]
Nearly 35+ malicious apps in Android were found to be flouting security issues on Google Play store, and harvesting user data, and tracking location. A security company informed how the apps offered a wide range of security capabilities, like saving battery, cleaning junk, locking apps, WiFi security and more. These apps have some interesting names […]
Google has explicitly rejected them from the Play Store. Identify Airpush? The current advertisement scourge is ad-infused lock screens, which have shown up in earlier safe apps like ES File Explorer, Peel, and Hotspot Shield VPN. Google has certainly listened to our pleading, and lock screen ads are no longer released in the Play Store. Technically, the new system is […]