Results for 'mobile'
Mobile Menace Monday: Fake WhatsApp can steal info from your phone
April 2, 2018 - Last month, a blogger at My Online Security reported receiving a spam comment containing WhatsApp Plus. Going through the process, they...
You down with P2P? 10 tips to secure your mobile payment app
March 30, 2018 - If you look at the figures, you cannot deny that the eCommerce industry is steadily growing. More and more people are...
Mobile Menace Monday: Olympics app has more ads than games
March 5, 2018 - An app claiming to live stream the 2018 Winter Olympics (but really serving up a blizzard of ads) had a short...
Mobile Menace Monday: upping the ante on Adups
December 18, 2017 - Adups is back on our radar. The same China-based company caught collecting an abundance of user data and creating a backdoor on...
Mobile Menace Monday: Chrome declares war on unwanted redirects
November 27, 2017 - As it was introduced earlier this year, Google is initiating their plan to implement a few new changes in Chrome to...
Yet more mobile adware found in Google Play
October 17, 2017 - Finding an adware variant that made its way past the Google Play store is out of the ordinary. So when two...
Mobile Menace Monday: despicable adware
October 16, 2017 - Are you wondering how that mysterious icon ended up on your Android phone’s start screen? Annoyed at the ads clogging your...
Mobile Menace Monday: Implications of Google Play Protect
August 28, 2017 - Along with the recent release of Google’s new OS, Android 8.0 Oreo, they also released a new security suite known as...
Mobile Menace Monday: Malicious clicker with extra maliciousness included
July 31, 2017 - A new malicious clicker has emerged onto third-party app stores. Chinese in origin, the malicious app uses heavy obfuscation and poses...
Mobile Menace Monday: Fake WannaCry Scanner
June 26, 2017 - With all the buzz around the PC ransomware WannaCry, it’s no surprise that a fake antivirus (FakeAV) has emerged on Google Play....