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This week, AT commands will pwn your phone, Adobe gets creative with an update, protecting your pin, why companies should use the Google Play store, 0-day Windows vulnerabilities disclosed on Twitter, and side-channel attacks that can be mitigated with… Continue reading AT, Adobe, Fortnite, and 0-day – Hack Naked News #186
The world’s most popular game just arrived on Android in an unusual and potentially dangerous way. Fortnite is a cash cow of a video game. The free-to-play, first-person-shooter contest takes in hundreds of millions of dollars every month across computers, consoles and iPhones as users make a mountain of small purchases like new clothes or dance moves for their characters. Publisher Epic Games will now add the world’s most popular operating system, Android, to that river of revenue — and the company is angling to avoid the large 30 percent cut Google takes from official Play Store purchases by offering the game directly on the company website. The beta version landed on Friday. It has cybersecurity experts warning that the move will make Android users more vulnerable to hackers by pointing them away from the protection of Google Play Store. The main concern in the short term is that hackers will disguise malware as […]
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There’s both good news and bad news for Fortnite game lovers.
Fortnite, one of the most popular games in the world right now, is coming to Android devices very soon, but players would not be able to download Fortnite APK from the Google Play Store.
I… Continue reading Fortnite APK Download for Android Won’t Be Available on Google Play Store
Taking a leaf from Apple’s rulebook regarding cryptocurrency mining, Google has updated its Play Store guidelines to keep shady financial instruments out of its Android applications venue. Over on the Google Play Developer Policy Center, the tech… Continue reading Google Play Store no longer accepts crypto-mining apps
Following Apple’s lead in banning cryptocurrency mining apps, Google has also updated its Play Store policy this week to ban apps that mine cryptocurrencies on users’ devices in the background.
However, there are countless cryptocurrency mining apps, … Continue reading Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Android Apps From the Play Store
How do Android users know whether an app is genuine? Continue reading Offline Android apps get new security check
If you are wondering how to receive latest updates for an Android app—installed via a 3rd party source or peer-to-peer app sharing—directly from Google Play Store.
For security reasons, until now apps installed from third-party sources cannot be updat… Continue reading Google Solves Update Issue for Android Apps Installed from Unknown Sources
With all the hype around the wildly popular video game “Fortnite,” it should come as no surprise that people are taking advantage of the excitement to spread malware. Researchers with cybersecurity company Zscaler have uncovered a slew of Android apps posing as the official “Fortnite” app for Android. The various malicious apps’ capabilities include spyware, cryptojacking and adware, among other things. “Fortnite,” a multiplayer online battle and survival game, has about 45 million players on Playstation, Xbox, PC, MacOS and iOS. The company behind the game, Epic Games, has said that support for Android devices is “coming within the next few months,” but has not put out an official timeline. “A version for the Android mobile platform has not been announced, leaving Android users—eager to play this game on their devices—searching for it. Such situations involving popular games always seem to attract malware authors looking to spread their payloads disguised […]
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Large numbers of child-centred Android apps may be breaking US law. Continue reading Google in hot water over privacy of Android apps for kids
One year after a hacking campaign targeted Israeli Defense Force soldiers, the ViperRAT malware family returned to the Google Play Store, according to new research from the mobile security firm Lookout. ViperRAT made waves last year after a wave of IDF personnel fell victim to social engineering attacks from hackers posing as young women, who tricked the soldiers into installing third-party apps that copied files and spied on communications. The malware relatively disappeared after intense media coverage, but the new samples look even more sophisticated — so much so that they’ve snuck into the Google Play Store. It’s not clear who is being targeted or responsible for building the ViperRAT 2.0. The two ViperRAT malicious chat apps (called VokaChat and Chattak) in the Google Play Store were downloaded over 1,000 times before Lookout discovered and Google removed them. “The chat functionality of the apps, which in earlier ViperRAT samples did not function, […]
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