Results for 'adups'
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: Adups, old and new
November 28, 2016 - A newly discovered malicious app is found on China-made mobile devices running the Android OS. This is a baked-in system app...
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...
Pre-installed auto installer threat found on Android mobile devices in Germany
April 6, 2021 - Users primarily located in Germany are experiencing malware that downloads and installs on their Gigaset mobile devices—right out of the box! The...
We found yet another phone with pre-installed malware via the Lifeline Assistance program
July 8, 2020 - We have discovered, yet again, another phone model with pre-installed malware provided from the Lifeline Assistance program via Assurance Wireless by...
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...
Awakening the beast: BatMobi adware
March 29, 2019 - On February 12, a patron of the Malwarebytes Forum alerted us of an issue with ad redirects that seemed to come...
The new landscape of pre-installed mobile malware: malicious code within
January 2, 2019 - Here’s a scary thought: Mobile devices may soon come with pre-installed malware on required system apps. While it might sound like...
