An app claiming to live stream the 2018 Winter Olympics (but really serving up a blizzard of ads) had a short…
Tag: Android
A week in security (February 12 – February 18)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at a huge Android cryptomining campaign, malicious apps on Google Play, and some Apple…
Kotlin-based malicious apps penetrate Google market
An open-source programming language, Kotlin is a fully-supported official programming language for Android. Google boasts that Kotlin contains safety features in…
Drive-by cryptomining campaign targets millions of Android users
Malvertising and online fraud through forced redirects and Trojanized apps—to cite the two most common examples—are increasingly plaguing Android users. In many…
Bogus hack apps hack users back for cryptocash
Recently, we discovered a gold…er…APK mine of fake hacking apps. The “legitimate” versions of hack apps are intended to hack other apps in…
Lo lo lo Loapi Trojan could break your Android
Kaspersky has found what they deem as a jack of all trades malicious app they call Trojan.AndroidOS.Loapi. Like the Trojan AsiaHitGroup we discovered…
Mobile Menace Monday: upping the ante on Adups
Adups is back on our radar. The same China-based company caught collecting an abundance of user data and creating a backdoor on…
New Android Trojan malware discovered in Google Play
A new piece of mobile malware has been discovered in Google Play masquerading as multiple apps: an alarm clock app, a…
Why emerging APAC markets are prime targets for the malware of the future
In many ways, Asia has led the way in technological development. Robotics, video games, dizzyingly fast Internet speeds. But when it…
All rise! Mind these digital crimes and arm yourself against them
Have you noticed that, in this year alone, headlines are inundated with words that contain “cyber”? Cybercrime. Cyberattack. Cybersecurity. Cyberwarfare. The…