A hacking group known for its attacks in the Middle East, at least since 2017, has recently been found impersonating legitimate messaging apps such as Telegram and Threema to infect Android devices with a new, previously undocumented malware. "Compared to the versions documented in 2017, Android/SpyC23.A has extended spying functionality, including reading notifications from … [Read more...] about New Android Spyware Found Posing as Telegram and Threema Apps
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A Bug Could Let Attackers Hijack Firefox for Android via Wi-Fi Network
Dear Android users, if you use the Firefox web browser on your smartphones, make sure it has been updated to version 80 or the latest available version on the Google Play Store. ESET security researcher Lukas Stefanko yesterday tweeted an alert demonstrating the exploitation of a recently disclosed high-risk remote command execution vulnerability affecting the Firefox app for … [Read more...] about A Bug Could Let Attackers Hijack Firefox for Android via Wi-Fi Network
Android 11 — 5 New Security and Privacy Features You Need to Know
After a long wait and months of beta testing, Google last week finally released Android 11, the latest version of the Android mobile operating system—with features offering billions of its users more control over their data security and privacy. Android security is always a hot topic and almost always for the wrong reason, including Google's failure to prevent malicious apps … [Read more...] about Android 11 — 5 New Security and Privacy Features You Need to Know
Flaws in Samsung Phones Exposed Android Users to Remote Attacks
New research disclosed a string of severe security vulnerabilities in the 'Find My Mobile'—an Android app that comes pre-installed on most Samsung smartphones—that could have allowed remote attackers to track victims' real-time location, monitor phone calls, and messages, and even delete data stored on the phone.Portugal-based cybersecurity services provider Char49 revealed its … [Read more...] about Flaws in Samsung Phones Exposed Android Users to Remote Attacks
New Android Malware Now Steals Passwords For Non-Banking Apps Too
Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a new strain of banking malware that targets not only banking apps but also steals data and credentials from social networking, dating, and cryptocurrency apps—a total of 337 non-financial Android applications on its target list.Dubbed "BlackRock" by ThreatFabric researchers, which discovered the trojan in May, its source code is … [Read more...] about New Android Malware Now Steals Passwords For Non-Banking Apps Too
MonitorMinor: Spying on Android | Kaspersky official blog
Using stalkerware isn’t just unethical, it’s inherently unsafe. The first point hardly requires further explanation. As for the second, the problem is this: Spying apps steal vast amounts of confidential data from devices and send it over the Internet, and their creators care not a jot about protecting it. How the data is stored or transmitted to the command-and-control … [Read more...] about MonitorMinor: Spying on Android | Kaspersky official blog
PhantomLance Android backdoor on Google Play
Last July, our colleagues at Doctor Web detected a Trojan backdoor on Google Play. Such discoveries are not exactly an everyday occurrence, but they’re hardly unheard of — researchers do find Trojans on Google Play, sometimes hundreds at a time. This Trojan, however, was surprisingly sophisticated for malware found on Google Play, so our experts decided to dig deeper. They … [Read more...] about PhantomLance Android backdoor on Google Play
Qualcomm Chip Flaws Let Hackers Steal Private Data From Android Devices
Hundreds of millions of devices, especially Android smartphones and tablets, using Qualcomm chipsets, are vulnerable to a new set of potentially serious vulnerabilities.According to a report cybersecurity firm CheckPoint shared with The Hacker News, the flaws could allow attackers to steal sensitive data stored in a secure area that is otherwise supposed to be the most … [Read more...] about Qualcomm Chip Flaws Let Hackers Steal Private Data From Android Devices
Chrome for Android Enables Site Isolation Security Feature for All Sites with Login
After enabling 'Site Isolation' security feature in Chrome for desktops last year, Google has now finally introduced 'the extra line of defence' for Android smartphone users surfing the Internet over the Chrome web browser.In brief, Site Isolation is a security feature that adds an additional boundary between websites by ensuring that pages from different sites end up in … [Read more...] about Chrome for Android Enables Site Isolation Security Feature for All Sites with Login
New 0-Day Flaw Affecting Most Android Phones Being Exploited in the Wild
Another day, another revelation of a critical unpatched zero-day vulnerability, this time in the world's most widely used mobile operating system, Android.What's more? The Android zero-day vulnerability has also been found to be exploited in the wild by the Israeli surveillance vendor NSO Group—infamous for selling zero-day exploits to governments—or one of its customers, to … [Read more...] about New 0-Day Flaw Affecting Most Android Phones Being Exploited in the Wild