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12 Sep

Popular Period Tracking Apps Share Your Sexual Health Data With Facebook

Hello Ladies, let’s talk about periods, privacy, and Facebook. Are you using an app on your smartphone to keep tracks on your periods? Well, it’s worrying, because it might be sharing your extremely sensitive information like menstrual cycle and sexual...
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10 Sep

Google Will Now Pay Anyone Who Reports Apps Abusing Users’ Data

In the wake of data abuse scandals and several instances of malware app being discovered on the Play Store, Google today expanded its bug bounty program to beef up the security of Android apps and Chrome extensions distributed through its...
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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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11 Jul

Over 1,300 Android Apps Caught Collecting Data Even If You Deny Permissions

Smartphones are a goldmine of sensitive data, and modern apps work as diggers that continuously collect every possible information from your devices. The security model of modern mobile operating systems, like Android and iOS, is primarily based on permissions that...
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26 Jun

‘Legit Apps Turned into Spyware’ Targeting Android Users in Middle East

Cybersecurity researchers are warning about an ongoing Android malware campaign that has been active since 2016 and was first publicly reported in August 2018. Dubbed “ViceLeaker” by researchers at Kaspersky, the campaign has recently been found targeting Israeli citizens and...
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8 May

Unpatched Flaw in UC Browser Apps Could Let Hackers Launch Phishing Attacks

A bug hunter has discovered and publicly disclosed details of an unpatched browser address bar spoofing vulnerability that affects popular Chinese UC Browser and UC Browser Mini apps for Android. Developed by Alibaba-owned UCWeb, UC Browser is one of the...
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26 Mar

New Settings Let Hackers Easily Pentest Facebook, Instagram Mobile Apps

Facebook has introduced a new feature in its platform that has been designed to make it easier for bug bounty hunters to find security flaws in Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Android applications. Since almost all Facebook-owned apps by default use...
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13 Feb

New Unpatched macOS Flaw Lets Apps Spy On Your Safari Browsing History

A new security vulnerability has been discovered in the latest version of Apple’s macOS Mojave that could allow a malicious application to access data stored in restricted folders which are otherwise not accessible to every app. Discovered by application developer...
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4 Feb

Several Popular Beauty Camera Apps Caught Stealing Users’ Photos

Just because an app is available on Google Play Store doesn’t mean that it is a legitimate app. Despite so many efforts by Google, some fake and malicious apps do sneak in and land millions of unaware users on the...
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