Bad Diagnosis: Analyzing Consent and Data Collection Practices of Mobile Medical Apps

Mobile health mHealth apps collect personally-identifiable information while handling uniquely sensitive medical data, ranging from mental health records to real-time glucose or heart rate monitoring -- yet they remain poorly understood at scale. We present the first comprehensive analysis of...

Beyond the Play Store: How Android threats really spread

You probably think of your phone's security the way you think of your front door: as long as you're downloading apps from the Play Store, you're safe. And for the most part, that's true. Google reviews apps before they’re published. But some apps reach your phone without ever passing through the...

Malicious code in google-play-store (PyPI)

Source: kam193 b0f8bc12f61546bde84dd1d7a64519fcdc55ce875b71f3d8d848d2d5daa2248d This is a copy of https://pypi.org/project/play-scraper/ with added a very questionable "telemetry": in scraper.py, L90 sends the user hostname, IP and the exact local ID of scraped application to the package author...

New SparkCat Variant in iOS, Android Apps Steals Crypto Wallet Recovery Phrase Images

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new version of the SparkCat malware on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, more than a year after the trojan was discovered targeting both the mobile operating systems. The malware has been found to conceal itself within seemingly benign apps, su...

BeatBanker: A dual‑mode Android Trojan

Recently, we uncovered BeatBanker, an Android‑based malware campaign targeting Brazil. It spreads primarily through phishing attacks via a website disguised as the Google Play Store. To achieve their goals, the malicious APKs carry multiple components, including a cryptocurrency miner and a banki...

Hacked App Part of US/Israeli Propaganda Campaign Against Iran

Wired has the story: Shortly after the first set of explosions, Iranians received bursts of notifications on their phones. They came not from the government advising caution, but from an apparently hacked prayer-timing app called BadeSaba Calendar that has been downloaded more than 5 million time...

Google to Pay $8.25M Settlement Over Child Data Tracking in Play Store

Is your child's data safe? Google settles for $8.25M over claims it tracked kids under 13 without parental…...

Minor update(3) for Vivaldi Android Browser 7.7

Head to the Google Play Store and download the browser. Alternatively, you can download Vivaldi from Uptodown, the Android app store. Your rating for our browser matters. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Enjoy! Changelog The following is a list of changes since the second 7.7 minor update: RegressionTablet Does not...

Malicious code in upload-to-play-store (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 86f86113dded695e7f899fe12b243d559d7cb4ddf1f6d3d67aa8318c07ed646d The package upload-to-play-store was found to contain malicious code. Source: ghsa-malware...

MAL-2025-190939 Malicious code in upload-to-play-store (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 86f86113dded695e7f899fe12b243d559d7cb4ddf1f6d3d67aa8318c07ed646d The package upload-to-play-store was found to contain malicious code. Source: ghsa-malware...

Malware in upload-to-play-store

Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outsid...

EUVD-2025-199006

Malicious code in upload-to-play-store npm...

EUVD-2020-7239

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224 malicious apps removed from the Google Play Store after ad fraud campaign discovered

Researchers have discovered a large ad fraud campaign on Google Play Store. The Satori Threat Intelligence and Research team found 224 malicious apps which were downloaded over 38 million times and generated up to 2.3 billion ad requests per day. They named the campaign "SlopAds." Ad fraud is a...

SlopAds Fraud Ring Exploits 224 Android Apps to Drive 2.3 Billion Daily Ad Bids

A massive ad fraud and click fraud operation dubbed SlopAds ran a cluster of 224 apps, collectively attracting 38 million downloads across 228 countries and territories. "These apps deliver their fraud payload using steganography and create hidden WebViews to navigate to threat actor-owned cashou...

Popular Android VPN apps found to have security flaws and China links

People use VPNs for different security and privacy reasons, to access content anonymously, or to bypass content controls and age verification by pretending to be in different places. But not all VPNs are created equal. A recent report has revealed that many of them might allow others to sniff you...

77 malicious apps removed from Google Play Store

Google has removed 77 malicious apps from the Google Play Store. Before they were removed, researchers at ThreatLabz discovered the apps had been installed over 19 million times. One of the malware families discovered by the researchers is a banking Trojan known as Anatsa or TeaBot. This banking...

Google to Verify All Android Developers in 4 Countries to Block Malicious Apps

Google has announced plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even for those who distribute their software outside the Play Store. "Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed by users on certified...

Google to Verify All Android Developers in 4 Countries to Block Malicious Apps

Google has announced plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even for those who distribute their software outside the Play Store. "Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed by users on certified...

New Konfety Malware Variant Evades Detection by Manipulating APKs and Dynamic Code

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new, sophisticated variant of a known Android malware referred to as Konfety that leverages the evil twin technique to enable ad fraud. The sneaky approach essentially involves a scenario wherein two variants of an application share the same package nam...