LockerPin Ransomware Resets PIN and Permanently Locks Your SmartPhones

Your device's lock screen PIN is believed to keep your phone's contents safe from others, but sadly not from a new piece of ransomware that is capable of hijacking safety of your Android devices. A group of security researchers has uncovered what is believed to be the first real example of malwar...

After 5 Years, Now Google Ready to Comply with China's Censorship Laws for Business

Google is planning to introduce a trimmed down special version of Google Play Store and Android Wear to The Mainland China. But wait, if I’m not wrong… Google had ended ties with China five years ago. Then what made Google to re-establish itself in China once again? Business?? Recent reports by...

Android devices frequently have pits: Certifi-gate vulnerability control-screen recording-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! This month's black hat conference disclosure vulnerability Certifi-gate exposed android security repeatedly go wrong. The black bar safety net Encyclopedia: what is the Certifi-gate “Certifi-gate”is a vulnerability, this vulnerability exists in the Android phone remote support...

Google Pulls App Exploiting Certifi-Gate Vulnerability

A mobile application exploiting the so-called Certifi-gate vulnerability disclosed at Black Hat has been removed from the Google Play store. Though the number of downloads of Recordable Activator, a screen recorder app for Android devices, hovers between 100,000 and a half-million, researchers at...

Malicious Gaming App Infects More than 1 Million Android Users

It's not at all surprising that the Google Play Store is surrounded by a number of malicious applications that may gain users' attention to fall victim for one, but this time it might be even worse than you thought. Threat researchers from security firm ESET have discovered a malicious...

Gello: Cyanogen's Customizable Web Browser for Android

Get ready for a new Android Browser! Android ROM developer CyanogenMod has announced that it is working on a new browser for Android devices. Dubbed Gello, the open-source browser is based on Google's Chromium project and includes a ton of customization options for Android. The team provided a...

Malicious Minecraft apps affect 600,000 Android Users

So you love Minecraft? You might want to be very careful before downloading the cheats for the popular Minecraft game from Google Play Store. Nearly 3 Million users have downloaded malicious Minecraft Android applications for their smartphone and tablets from the Google Play store, security...

Spy Agencies Hijack Google Play Store to Install Spyware on Smartphones

I have an Android phone with a five different gmail accounts configured in it. But what if any one of them get compromised via phishing, malware or any other way? The Hacker would be able to access my Google account and obviously Google Play Store account too, which allows anyone to install any...

Google Now Manually Reviews Play Store Android App Submissions

Google has changed the way it managed apps on the Google Play Store. After years of depending on the automated app check process, the company just made some changes to its Play Store policies that will successfully weed out malicious and undesirable apps from Google Play store. Google has...

Hackers Can Remotely Install Malware Apps to Your Android Device

Security researchers have warned of a pair of vulnerabilities in the Google Play Store that could allow cyber crooks to install and launch malicious applications remotely on Android devices. Tod Beardsley, technical lead for the Metasploit Framework at Rapid7 warns that an X-Frame-Options XFO...

Android Browser RCE Through Google Play Store XFO

This module combines two vulnerabilities to achieve remote code execution on affected Android devices. First, the module exploits CVE-2014-6041, a Universal Cross-Site Scripting UXSS vulnerability present in versions of Android's open source stock browser the AOSP Browser prior to 4.4. Second, th...

GCHQ Releases 'Cryptoy' App for Kids to Teach Encryption

British government surveillance agency GCHQ – counterpart of NSA – has fired-up another debate over the Internet by launching Android application to encourage teenagers to tackle emerging cybersecurity threats. The newly launched Android app, dubbed "Cryptoy", was developed by STEM science,...

Android Malware Installs Pirated Assassin's Creed App

A pirated version of the Assassin’s Creed application for Android is bundled with malware according to the security-as-as-service from Zscaler. Assassin’s Creed is a popular, open-world series of adventure games available in various iterations on the XBOX, PlayStation, PC and other gaming...

SandroRAT — Android Malware that Disguises itself as "Kaspersky Mobile Security" App

Researchers have warned users of Android devices to avoid app downloads from particularly unauthorized sources, since a new and sophisticated piece of malware is targeting Android users through phishing emails. The malware, dubbed SandroRAT, is currently being used by cybercriminals to target...

Cloned Android Banking App Hides Phishing Scheme

Cloned mobile applications, such as the legions of Flappy Bird knock-offs that surfaced once the popular game was removed from Google Play and the Apple App Store, are an increasingly popular malware vehicle for attackers. The risks range from loading programs that dial premium numbers at the...

PlayDrone Reveals Secret Keys from Thousands of Play Store Android Apps

Google's Android Mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets have Google's own Play Store that provides its Android users the most visible way to access the world of millions of apps. App developers produce more than thousands of applications each year, but majority of newbie and...

Chinese Android Smartphone comes with Pre-installed Spyware

If US has banned its several major government departments, including NASA, Justice and Commerce Departments, from purchasing Chinese products and computer technology due to suspected backdoors, then they are not wrong at all. A popular Chinese Android Smartphone comes pre-installed with a Trojan...

Google Play App Permissions Privacy, Security Concerns

Google’s revamped app permissions for Google Play are not being well received by Android users. Reddit threads are rife with adjectives such as “stupid” and “dangerous,” primarily because Google’s attempt to simplify permissions granted to automatically updated applications may in fact expose use...

Google Removes Bitcoin Mining Android Malware from Play

Google recently removed five bogus wallpaper apps from its Play marketplace after they were deemed malicious and found sneakily mining Bitcoins. The malware, dubbed BadLepricon, was spotted funneling Bitcoin into wallets and allowed the attacker to change mining pools easily to maximize the minin...

Android Bitcoin-Mining Malware found on Google Play Store

Google always bound to face trouble over the wide and open nature of its app checking policies on Google Play Store, and despite so many security measures, the search engine giant mostly fails to recognize the Android malware that are lurking around its Google Play store in vast numbers. Recently...