Several Popular Beauty Camera Apps Caught Stealing Users' Photos

Just because an app is available on Google Play Store doesn't mean that it is a legitimate app. Despite so many efforts by Google, some fake and malicious apps do sneak in and land millions of unaware users on the hunting ground of scammers and hackers. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro uncovered at...

Several Popular Beauty Camera Apps Caught Stealing Users' Photos

Just because an app is available on Google Play Store doesn't mean that it is a legitimate app. Despite so many efforts by Google, some fake and malicious apps do sneak in and land millions of unaware users on the hunting ground of scammers and hackers. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro uncovered at...

Apple iOS, tvOS and macOS libxpc Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Apple iOS, tvOS, and macOS are all products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system developed for mobile devices; tvOS is an operating system for smart TVs; and macOS is a specialized operating system developed for Mac computers. libxpc is an open-source implementation of the Apple XPC...

Malicious apps deploy Anubis banking trojan using motion detection

By Waqas Google has left no stone unturned in preventing malware and banking trojan from invading the applications uploaded on its official Play Store. Despite having anti-malware protection, shady applications somehow make it to the platform. In fact, malware developers have become so advanced i...

Google Play Removes Malicious Malware-Ridden Apps

Google Play has removed two malicious apps that were infecting devices with a notorious banking malware bent on scooping up victim’s credentials. The two apps, Currency Converter and BatterySaverMobo, purported to be useful mobile tools that help users calculate currency and optimize mobile batte...

Google Removes 85 Adware Apps That Infect 9 Million Android Users

Google has removed 85 apps from its Play Store after finding out that they were pushing aggressive, full-screen adware to Android users. With the rise in the mobile market, Adware has become one of the most prevalent mobile threats in the world. Adware has traditionally been used to aggressively...

CVE-2018-7961

There is a smart SMS verification code vulnerability in some Huawei smart phones. An attacker should trick a user to access malicious Website or malicious App and register. Due to incorrect processing of the smart SMS verification code, successful exploitation can cause sensitive information leak...

Persian Stalker pillages Iranian users of Instagram and Telegram

This blog post is authored by Danny Adamatis, Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres, Vitor Ventura and with the contributions of Eric Kuhla. Introduction State-sponsored actors have a number of different techniques at their disposal to remotely gain access to social media and secure messaging...

CVE-2018-7907

Some Huawei products Agassi-L09 AGS-L09C100B257CUSTC100D001, AGS-L09C170B253CUSTC170D001, AGS-L09C199B251CUSTC199D001, AGS-L09C229B003CUSTC229D001, Agassi-W09 AGS-W09C100B257CUSTC100D001, AGS-W09C128B252CUSTC128D001, AGS-W09C170B252CUSTC170D001, AGS-W09C229B251CUSTC229D001,...

Apple macOS Mojave Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Apple macOS Mojave is an operating system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac computers.The App Store is a platform for the online distribution of applications. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the handling of Apple IDs in the App Store component of Apple macOS Mojave version 10.14. ...

Fortnite Skips Google Play For Android Apps, Irking Security Experts

Security experts are dismayed after the makers of extremely popular video game Fortnite said its Android version of the game will only be available for download via the company’s website, shirking the Google Play store. Last week, Fortnite creator Epic Games confirmed that it will directly...

iPhone Hacking Campaign Using MDM Software Is Broader Than Previously Known

India-linked highly targeted mobile malware campaign, first unveiled two weeks ago, has been found to be part of a broader campaign targeting multiple platforms, including windows devices and possibly Android as well. As reported in our previous article, earlier this month researchers at Talos...

Fake Fortnite for Android links found on YouTube

The extremely popular video game Fortnite is coming to Android sometime this summer, and the fanbase is going wild. Not surprisingly, mobile malware developers are taking advantage. Already, there are several videos on YouTube with links claiming to be versions of Fortnite for Android, despite th...

Stop downloading fake malicious Fortnite Android apps

By Uzair Amir Fortnite, a popular multiplayer sandbox survival game from Epic Games has This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Stop downloading fake malicious Fortnite Android apps...

Scan QR Codes Safely with the Trend Micro QR Scanner

Using your camera and a QR code scanner on your mobile device, it’s easy to scan a code to download an app or go to a website—a bit too easy, some might say. What if the QR code is for a malicious app, or takes you to a dangerous website? How would you know before it’s too late? Trend Micro’s fre...

Epic Games Fortnite for Android–APK Downloads Leads to Malware

Given Fortnite's current popularity and craziness across the globe, we understand if you have been searching the web for download links to Fortnite APK for Android phone. However, you are not alone, thousands of people out there are also searching tutorials and links for, "how to install Fortnite...

Tens of Thousands of Malicious Apps Using Facebook APIs

At least 25,936 malicious apps are currently using one of Facebook’s APIs, such as a login API or messaging API. These allow apps to access a range of information from Facebook profiles, like name, location and email address. Trustlook discovered the malicious apps using a formula, which created ...

Millions of Apps Leak Private User Data Via Leaky Ad SDKs

SAN FRANCISCO – Millions of apps leak personal identifiable information such as name, age, income and possibly even phone numbers and email addresses. At fault are app developers who do not protect ad-targeting data transmitted to third-party advertisers. “The scale of what we first thought was...

VirusTotal launches 'Droidy' sandbox to detect malicious Android apps

One of the biggest and most popular multi-antivirus scanning engine service has today launched a new Android sandbox service, dubbed VirusTotal Droidy, to help security researchers detect malicious apps based on behavioral analysis. VirusTotal, owned by Google, is a free online service that allow...

Huawei Mate 9 Pro Forensic Bypass Vulnerability

Huawei Mate 9 Pro is a smartphone from Huawei Huawei. A forensic bypass vulnerability in the voice wake-up module in the Huawei Mate 9 Pro phone could allow an attacker to trick a user into installing a malicious application, bypass authentication, and take control of the phone to send a short...