Last November, I gave a talk in Ireland at the fantastic IRISSCON, a huge annual security conference which covers everything from social…
Tag: Google Play
Mobile Menace Monday: beware of monitoring apps
Our CEO, Marcin Kleczynski, recently announced that Malwarebytes will get tougher on PUPs. PUPs, or potentially unwanted programs, are some of…
Mobile Menace Monday: Fake AV makes it onto Google Play
Mobile Menace Monday is a bi-monthly entry to the Malwarebytes Labs wherein our Android OS security experts highlight the specific dangers…
Trojan clicker’s gaze cast upon Google Play store
We’ve discovered a Trojan clicker on the Google Play store doing far more than advertised. The app name in Turkish is “Mayis Guzel Aydir”,…
Study: Majority of Free Apps Connect to Ads, Some to Trackers and Suspicious Sites
Institut Eurécom, a graduate school and research center in France, recently released a paper on mobile apps, particularly for the Android…
Monitor App on Google Play Sends GPS Location
There’s a monitor app available on the Google Play store which sends location coordinates through text message. Although monitor apps like…
Trojan SMS Found on Google Play
I’m not quite sure how this one slipped under Google Play’s radar, but a SMS Trojan app with the package name…