Quarterly highlights Malware, adware and unwanted software attacks on mobile devices were down slightly year-on-year. Kaspersky mobile security systems thwarted a total of 4.9 million attacks in Q1 2023. During the period in question, we detected several mobile photo editors on Google Play, which, besides their legitimate features, contained a dropper hidden inside a heavily […]
In early April, Kaspersky experts discovered a mass e-mailing campaign sending messages with a malicious PDF attached. The attackers are taking aim at companies: a dangerous document is attached to business correspondence (we saw e-mails written in English, German, Italian and French). The objective of the campaign is to infect victims’ computers with the QBot […]
Android users are often advised to get mobile apps from Google Play, the company’s official app marketplace, to minimize the possibility of downloading malware. After all, Google analyzes apps before allowing them on the market. Unfortunately, time after time, we read about malware peddlers finding ways around that vetting process. “Distribution through droppers on official […]
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