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Downloading an application means that you are allowing the software open access to your mobile phone and all the data that is stored on it. Many a time, these applications are used for spying purposes by an individual or state-sponsored group of hackers. The criticism received by ZTE and Huawei for collecting and sending data to China shows how these […]
CheckPoint, a renowned security firm, has discovered that at least one app on Google Play Store is infected with Charger Malware. Charger malware is technically ransomware because the app managed to steal contacts and messages/SMS data from the infected device and then gains admin permissions to lock the device so that victim cannot use it. […]
CheckPoint security firm has detected a presence of the notorious HummingWhale malware in 20 Android apps, which are quite commonly used by Android users since these have been downloaded millions of times (approx. 2 to 12 million). According to the analysis of CheckPoint, back in 2016, there was a version of HummingWhale malware called HummingBad that […]
Short Bytes: Google Play Store is the official home of apps and games for the Android OS. For regular users, there are many features and Google Play Store tricks. They can manually update Google Play, set content restrictions, download apps that are not available in their country, manage connected devices, etc. I don’t have to […]
Google always bring exciting products and features. Recently, the Internet giant announced that next Google Chrome update for PC will make it consume less RAM. The company also added alerts against visiting malicious sites, fake play, close, download buttons and misleading ads to tackle spam. Now, after making YouTube and GoogleMaps accessible in offline mode the official […]
Short Bytes: The best Android app for 2016 is Prisma. Google has released their Google Play’s Best of 2016 lists for different categories like movies, apps, games, TV shows, music, and books. Check out the top 5 trending names for each category. Continuing their annual ritual, Google has announced this year’s names for their Best […]
A new Android banking Trojan has surfaced and gripped the entire banking industry across the US and Europe by appearing as a Flash Player App. The Trojan has already targeted the customers of around 94 major banking and financial apps in US and Europe including Santander, Coinbase, American Express, PayPal, Deutsche Bank, Credit Karma and […]
Google releases fixes for newer devices and ejects apps following reports. It was a bad week for millions of Android phone users. Two critical vulnerabilities were disclosed but remain unpatched in a large percentage of devices, while, separately, malicious apps were downloaded as many as 2.5 million times from Google’s official Play Marketplace. The vulnerabilities, […]
The HTML Source Code Viewer app by Sunuba Gaming poses as a development tool then steals pictures and videos from mobile devices. Last time we blogged about malware on Google Play that stole photos from Viber. Since then we’ve discovered another app on Google Play that is moving personal media files (photos and videos) off […]
Alert for Pokémon Go app users on Android — Cyber criminals have uploaded a fake copy of Pokémon Go gaming app which is actually infected with RAT that has a unique capability of taking over the smartphone! The new Pokémon Go app was recently released for iOS and Android devices but who could have predicted that […]
In April 2016, while investigating a Smishing campaign dubbed RuMMS that involved the targeting of Android users in Russia, we also noticed three similar Smishing campaigns reportedly spreading inDenmark (February 2016), in Italy (February 2016), and in both Denmark and Italy (April 2016). Unlike the RuMMS campaign, these three campaigns in Europe used view overlay […]
Latest Android malware makes Anonymous calls through Google Talk, sends SMS messages and steals personal data masquerading as a simple stopwatch app! As technology giants are gearing for superior security, cybercriminals are also acquiring new tactics to attack users. In their latest scam, cybercriminals have developed an Android malware that has the ability to make malicious calls through Google […]
Short Bytes: Third party app stores cannot always guarantee the user safety with each app they hand out to a user. On the other hand, app giant like Google Play is famous for providing security against the malicious apps. According to the latest research by Trend Micro, a new malware has been spotted in the […]
Privacy seekers and admirers have every reason to rejoice since Facebook is bringing TOR, the free anonymizing software to support its android application. This is a surprising turn of events but if we recall, Facebook already announced its plan to make the social network directly available on TOR network back in 2014. This is indeed […]
FireEye IT security firm has discovered Android malware apps that can masquerade as the most popular financial applications including world’s biggest banks. In total, the security firm found Android apps from 33 financial institutions masquerading for the purpose of stealing financial data. These apps come from a family of Trojan apps known as “SlemBunk” and […]
Short Bytes: Just like every year, Google has just released its annual End Of The Year lists. This list contains 2015’s top movies, books, music, and TV shows on Google Play. Read more to know the top 10 in each category. Google has released its annual End Of The Year lists. While the listings on the […]
The IT security researchers at ESET detected malware on popular Android games which created quite a furor among users. A couple of weeks ago we reported how the hackers are infectiting verified Android apps with malware and successfully passes through Google Bouncer, the vetting system of Google Play Store. Now, ESET reports that the malware […]
If you think that all the Android apps currently available on the legitimate Google Play Store are reliable and free-of-malware, then you are wrong. Developers of MKero Malware, which was firstly identified in 2014, have altered their apps’ packing in such a manner that it easily and successfully passes through Google Bouncer, the vetting system […]
Android is one of the most vulnerable OS in the world — If you are an Android user you need to be careful with downloading apps. Several malicious mobile apps have been surfaced on the Internet, which is a ransomware variant that takes advantage of offering pornography as a bait for targeted victims into downloading […]
Officials at Check Point, the IT security vendor, have discovered a rogue app on the Google Play Store that is exploiting the recently identified Certifi-gate bug. Recordable Activator (downloaded by 6,083 users), the application that has been accused of this malicious behavior, is a screen-recording app that was created by Invisibility, a UK-based company. [must […]
Do you love playing games on your Android tablet and smartphone? Well, the innocent games you play, could be a route to bring some notorious malware to your devices. The researchers of security firm ESET have recently revealed that games Cowboy Adventure and Jump Chess have compromised the login information of about 1 million users. […]