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8 Sep

Exploit Reseller Offering Up To $2.5 Million For Android Zero-Days

Well, there’s some good news for hackers and vulnerability hunters, though terrible news for Google, Android device manufacturers, and their billions of users worldwide. The zero-day buying and selling industry has recently taken a shift towards Android operating system, offering...
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27 Aug

WARNING — Malware Found in CamScanner Android App With 100+ Million Users

Beware! Attackers can remotely hijack your Android device and steal data stored on it, if you are using CamScanner, a highly-popular Phone PDF creator app with more than 100 million downloads on Google Play Store. So, to be safe, just...
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13 Aug

Cerberus: A New Android ‘Banking Malware For Rent’ Emerges

After a few popular Android Trojans like Anubis, Red Alert 2.0, GM bot, and Exobot, quit their malware-as-a-service businesses, a new player has emerged on the Internet with similar capabilities to fill the gap, offering Android bot rental service to the masses. Dubbed “Cerberus,”...
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12 Aug

Android Users Can Now Log in to Google Services Using Fingerprint

If you’re using Chrome on Android, you can now sign-in to your Google account and some of the other Google services by simply using your fingerprint, instead of typing in your password every time. Google is rolling out a new...
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11 Aug

New Flaws in Qualcomm Chips Expose Millions of Android Devices to Hacking

A series of critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Qualcomm chipsets that could allow hackers to compromise Android devices remotely just by sending malicious packets over-the-air with no user interaction. Discovered by security researchers from Tencent’s Blade team, the vulnerabilities,...
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10 Aug

Facebook Sues Two Android App Developers for Click Injection Fraud

Facebook has filed a lawsuit against two shady Android app developers accused of making illegal money by hijacking users’ smartphones to fraudulently click on Facebook ads. According to Facebook, Hong Kong-based ‘LionMobi’ and Singapore-based ‘JediMobi’ app developers were distributing malicious...
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25 Jul

Your Android Phone Can Get Hacked Just By Playing This Video

Are you using an Android device? Beware! You should be more careful while playing a video on your smartphone—downloaded anywhere from the Internet or received through email. That’s because, a specially crafted innocuous-looking video file can compromise your Android smartphone—thanks...
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25 Jul

New Android Spyware Created by Russian Defense Contractor Found in the Wild

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new piece of mobile surveillance malware believed to be developed by a Russian defense contractor that has been sanctioned for interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Dubbed Monokle, the mobile remote-access trojan has been...
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17 Jul

New Attack Lets Android Apps Capture Loudspeaker Data Without Any Permission

Earlier this month, The Hacker News covered a story on research revealing how over 1300 Android apps are collecting sensitive data even when users have explicitly denied the required permissions. The research was primarily focused on how app developers abuse...
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11 Jul

New Malware Replaced Legit Android Apps With Fake Ones On 25 Million Devices

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? I’m...
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