Google Eliminates Android Adfraud Botnet Chamois

Google removed a handful of malicious apps from its Play marketplace recently that were found manipulating ad traffic, sending premium text messages, and downloading additional plugins. Bernhard Grill, Megan Ruthven, and Xin Zhao, security software engineers with the company, said Monday they...

Half of Chrome Pageloads are HTTPS

First it was Mozilla, and now Google is the latest to confirm that encryption is inching closer toward becoming a standard building block for websites and web applications. Google reported yesterday that more than half of pages loaded on desktop versions of the Chrome browser are being done so ov...

Researchers Tie Pirrit Adware to Israeli Marketing Company

Researchers have linked a variant of the Pirrit adware for Mac OS X to an Israeli online marketing company called TargetingEdge that is still in stealth mode. Amit Serper, lead Linux and Mac OS X researcher at Cybereason, said that script he wrote to remove the original version of Pirrit from...