Google Offers Bug Bounty Vulnerability Research Grants

Google last week announced that it has instituted a program for 2015 in which researchers can receive up to 3,133.70 in grant money for bug hunting. Researchers must apply for the grants, which will be an up-front award that will be paid out before a bug is submitted, Google said. “Researchers’...

Google Engineer Explains Company's Decision Not to Patch Bug in Older Android Versions

Google has taken quite a bit of heat in recent weeks for its decision not to patch a vulnerability in the WebView component of Android in older versions, leaving hundreds of millions of users exposed to potential attacks. Now, a Google engineer is explaining the company’s reasoning, saying that...

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...

X (Formerly Twitter): Stored xss

Hi! There's a stored xss on ads.twitter.com under "Add New App" section at https://ads.twitter.com/accounts/18ce53wsl3g/campaigns/newobjective/appinstalls. There's a option to add android application by Google play app id, so i searched for a app on play store with name " "" " and then i got this...

Android App SSL Certificate Validation Errors Enumerated

A growing compilation of close to 350 Android applications that fail to perform SSL certificate validation over HTTPS has been put together by the CERT Coordination Center at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Researcher Will Dormann created a large spreadsheet host...

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...

Fake 'Placebo Apps' Booted From Google Play, Amazon

A handful of apps purporting to specialize in virus detection and malware scanning were recently removed from Google’s Play marketplace and Amazon after being deemed fake. Security researchers at FireEye discovered five apps in particular that accounted for up to 50,000 downloads and essentially...

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...

Google Gives Refund to Thousands of Buyers Who Bought Bogus Android AntiVirus App

About a week back we reported about a popular paid Antivirus application on the Google Play Store which was actually a scam, dubbed as ‘Virus Shield’. This First paid fake app managed to become one of the most popular anti-virus app in less than a week, and apparently more than 10,000 Smartphones...

Update Adobe Reader app for Android to Patch Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

If you're one of the 400 million Android users out there who have installed Adobe Reader app that helps you to view PDF documents on mobile devices, then you should immediately update your app from Google Play Store. Adobe has released an updated Adobe Reader 11.2.0 version to addresses an...

First Paid Fake Android Antivirus App Downloaded 10,000 times from Google Play Store

Well, we all are very conscious, when it comes to the security of our personal information, security of our financial data and security of everything related to us. In the world of Smart devices where our Smartphones knows more than we know ourselves. To keep our device protected from harmful...

Android Vulnerability: Install App Without User Explicit Consent

This vulnerability allows an app to install any number of apps with any type of permissions without user's explicit consent. It is based on two things: 1. You can install an app from Google Play using just the browser, even from PC. 2. An app can embed a browser and automatically login into your...

Android Malware found on Google Play Store mines Cryptocurrencies

Cyber criminals are more business-minded than you might expect. As the business has moved to greater use of mobile and non-Windows computers, so cyber criminals have adapted techniques monetize their efforts. Security researchers at Lookout Mobile Security discovered that various apps uploaded to...

Android Malware Mines Digital Cryptocurrency

On its surface, the idea of turning a smartphone into a cryptocurrency mining machine sounds novel. But practical and profitable? Not so much. That hasn’t stopped thieves from corrupting a number of popular Android applications for just that purpose, including two on the Google Play store called...

Turkish Hacker Crashes Google Play Store Twice while testing vulnerability

Last Weekend Google Play Store was crashed twice by a Turkish hacker when he tried to test vulnerability he discovered on the Android apps publishing system, known as Google's Developer Console. Turkish hacker 'Ibrahim Balic' claimed responsibility for the Google Play Store attack and told 'The...

Symantec discovered Android Malware Toolkit named Dendroid

Android platform is becoming vulnerable day by day and hackers always try to manipulate android by applying novel techniques. In this regard, Symantec researchers have found a new android malware toolkit named “Dendroid”. Previously Symantec found an Android Remote admin tool named AndroRAT is...