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Beware! Attackers can remotely hijack your Android device and steal data stored on it, if you are using free version of CamScanner, a highly-popular Phone PDF creator app with more than 100 million downloads on Google Play Store.
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The Google Play Store on Android and Chrome OS received a visual redesign this week with a new look and new navigation.
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A bogus version of the messaging app Telegram infected downloaders’ phones with a pernicious strain of malware that sent devices searching for malicious sites on an endless loop, according to Symantec research published Monday. The MobonoGram 2019 app was downloaded more than 100,000 times — mostly by users in Iran, the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates — before it was scrubbed from Google’s marketplace. The program’s developers borrowed open-source code from the real Telegram app, a program that provides encrypted messaging, while adding code that forced the app to try to connect to gaming sites, pornography and other suspicious URLs on a constant basis. The app also contained Android.FakeYouWon, a malware that displays websites promoting fake offers and scams. Symantec’s discovery of MobonoGram 2019 provides the latest reminder that scammers use programs in the Google Play Store as Trojan horses to infiltrate users’ phones. Many international users would have been […]
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Are you sure the WhatsApp app you are using on your Android device is legitimate, even if it’s working perfectly as intended?
…Or the JioTV, AppLock, HotStar, Flipkart, Opera Mini or Truecaller app—if you have installed any of these?
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A malicious software campaign tied to a Chinese internet company has exploited known vulnerabilities in Android mobile phones to infect roughly 25 million devices as part of a far-reaching ad fraud scheme, according to findings published Wednesday by Check Point. Hundreds of apps in a third-party Android marketplace disguised cocktails of malicious software that researchers say leveraged a number of known security issues to broadcast fraudulent advertisements. It’s only the latest example of near-daily revelations about apps acting in ways unwitting victims could not have anticipated — though this malicious activity is especially innovative. The programs — which mostly masqueraded as gaming, adult entertainment or photo apps — also contained code that allowed scammers to reach into legitimate apps that already existed on a victims’ phone, and commandeer those apps to broadcast advertisements. By displaying banner ads to so many users, the fraudsters could charge real advertisers for access to millions […]
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Next time you’re thinking about downloading a new app — especially if it’s a freebie from the Google Play Store — and ask yourself: Is this worth getting hacked over? If that sounds overly cautious, look at new findings published Monday by Trend Micro, which provide the latest evidence that the Play Store is littered with programs that aim to leverage unwitting users’ devices for their own purposes. The problem of malicious apps isn’t new, but the urgency to solve the problem is growing as web users increasingly connect to the internet with only their phone, and scammers’ techniques evolve. Researchers from the Japanese security giant found 182 gaming and camera-related apps, which collectively had been downloaded more than 9.3 million times, that came loaded with malicious software that exploited victims’ phones to boost advertising revenue. This discovery come less than a week after Symantec and Wandera unveiled other Android apps meant to […]
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An Android game with more than 50,000 downloads from the Google Play Store attempts to collect scores of data from users’ Google accounts — including Gmail usernames and passwords — alongside other dubious behaviors, according to forthcoming research provided exclusively to CyberScoop. Researchers from the mobile security company Wandera have identified the app, called “Scary Granny ZOMBY Mod: The Horror Game 2019,” as a malicious program that launches persistent full-screen advertisements on users’ phones, and asks some to enter their Google credentials. Upon receiving a victim’s username and password, the program automatically logs into users’ Google accounts and collects personal data for a purpose that researchers are still trying to determine, according to Michael Covington, vice president of product at Wandera. “There is no doubt in my mind that this app is malicious and puts private user data at risk,” he said. “It’s logging into the profile section of your Gmail and […]
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Wohooo! Great news for privacy-focused users.
Tor Browser, the most popular privacy-focused browser, for Android is finally out of beta, and the first stable version has now arrived on Google Play Store for anyone to download.
The Tor Project announc… Continue reading Tor Browser for Android — First Official App Released On Play Store
Google’s May security update for Android is out – but will you be lucky enough to get it this week? If you own one of a Pixel device, then yes. Continue reading Latest Android security updates, and Google to fix patch delays for Pixel
If you used WiFi Finder, your passwords to both public and private networks have been left online in an unprotected database. Continue reading Hotspot finder app blabs 2 million Wi-Fi network passwords