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Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones

09

Jan

2020

Budget Android smartphones offered through a US government initiative for low-income Americans come with preinstalled, unremovable Chinese malware, researchers report. These low-cost smartphones are sold by Assurance Wireless, a federal Lifeline Assistance program under Virgin Mobile. Lifeline, supported by the federal Universal Service Fund, is a government program launched in 1985 to provide discounted phone […]

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Many Apps Impacted by GIF Processing Flaw Patched Recently in WhatsApp

26

Nov

2019

Tracked as CVE-2019-11932, the security flaw exists in the open source library named libpl_droidsonroids_gif.so, which is part of the android-gif-drawable package and is used by numerous Android applications when processing GIF files. WhatsApp for Android was one of the impacted applications and Facebook patched it recently with the release of version 2.19.244. However, many other […]

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Emergent Android banking Trojan shows app overlay attacks are still effective

21

Nov

2019

Researchers are tracking an Android Trojan that’s been rapidly improving over the past several months. It uses overlay attacks to steal login credentials and payment card details from users of banking and other applications. Dubbed Ginp, the Trojan was first spotted in October 2019, but has been in the wild since at least June, according […]

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