Days after Google suspended the popular budget e-commerce application Pinduoduo from its Play Store, researchers are alleging that the Chinese app can bypass phones’ security and monitor activities of other apps, including accessing private messages and changing settings. The app was suspended from Play Store for malware presence on the versions of the Chinese app […]
More than 200 Android apps masquerading as fitness, photo editing, and puzzle apps have been observed distributing spyware called Facestealer to siphon user credentials and other valuable information. “Similar to Joker, another piece of mobile malware, Facestealer changes its code frequently, thus spawning many variants,” Trend Micro analysts Cifer Fang, Ford Quin, and Zhengyu Dong […]
A new set of trojanized apps spread via the Google Play Store has been observed distributing the notorious Joker malware on compromised Android devices. Joker, a repeat offender, refers to a class of harmful apps that are used for billing and SMS fraud, while also performing a number of actions of a malicious hacker’s choice, […]
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