Around 20 million activity-tracking apps have been downloaded from the Google Play Store, according to software company Dr.Web (via BleepingComputer). What draws Android users to these three tracking applications so much? They advertise themselves as pedometers and health trackers that encourage you to exercise by promising to pay out cash rewards to those who meet […]
Unknown Android spyware called “BadBazaar” has been found to target China’s ethnic and religious minorities, particularly the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Due to their cultural divergence from traditional eastern Chinese values, the central Chinese government has subjected the 13 million-strong Uyghur Muslim minority to extreme oppression. The new spyware was originally discovered by MalwareHunterTeam and linked to Bahamut in VirusTotal detections. […]
If Android were a car engine, and you popped the hood and poked around a bit, you’d find the label “Linux” etched on the engine block. The open-source operating system provides the starting point that Android’s built on top of, but sharing code also means sharing vulnerabilities. Now a newly discovered Linux kernel bug is raising concerns […]
Dozens of malicious apps, some available in Play, found in the past couple months. Joker malware September has been a busy month for malicious Android apps, with hundreds of them flooding either Google Play or third-party markets from a single malware family alone, researchers from security companies said. Known as Joker, since late 2016, this […]
