Results for 'mobile menace monday'
A week in security (Sep 18 – Sep 24)
September 26, 2016 - Last week, we listed 10 ways one can secure their mobile devices, issued a warning about a scam posted on our...
A week in security (Sep 04 – Sep 10)
September 12, 2016 - Last week, we debuted our first-ever Mobile Menace Monday post where we talked about a fake Pokémon Go app, which turned...
Don’t plug your phone into a free charging station, warns FBI
April 12, 2023 - In a recent tweet, the FBI office in Denver warned consumers against using free public charging stations, stating that criminals have...
Analyzing and remediating a malware infested T95 TV box from Amazon
January 30, 2023 - A couple of weeks ago, security news outlets made their rounds reporting on an Android TV box available on Amazon that...
The Olympics: a timeline of scams, hacks, and malware
July 28, 2021 - The 2020 Olympics are, after a bit of a delayed start, officially in full swing. So too is the possibility for...
Barcode Scanner app on Google Play infects 10 million users with one update
February 5, 2021 - UPDATE: February 12, 2021 It has come to our attention that there is another bad actor in this story. Apparently, the...
Android Trojan xHelper uses persistent re-infection tactics: here’s how to remove
February 12, 2020 - We first stumbled upon the nasty Android Trojan xHelper, a stealthy malware dropper, in May 2019. By mid-summer 2019, xHelper was topping...
United States government-funded phones come pre-installed with unremovable malware
January 9, 2020 - UPDATE: July 31, 2020 Months after publishing this first investigation into government-funded mobile phones, we were contacted by a concerned user...
Explained: juice jacking
November 21, 2019 - When your battery is dying and you’re nowhere near a power outlet, would you connect your phone to any old USB...
Stealthy new Android malware poses as ad blocker, serves up ads instead
November 14, 2019 - Since its discovery less than a month ago, a new Trojan malware for Android we detect as Android/Trojan.FakeAdsBlock has already been...
