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...

SparkKitty Spyware on App Store and Play Store, Steals Photos for Crypto Data

Kaspersky uncovers SparkKitty, new spyware in Apple App Store & Google Play. Steals photos, targets crypto info, active since early 2024 via malicious apps...

Security Bulletin: IBM Navigator Mobile Android app is vulnerable due to improper access control (CVE-2022-38388)

Summary Improper access control in the IBM Navigator Mobile Android app may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access CVE-2022-38388. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2022-38388 DESCRIPTION: IBM Navigator Mobile Android app could allow a local user t...

15 SpyLoan Apps Found on Play Store Targeting Millions

SUMMARY Cybercriminals are exploiting SpyLoan, or predatory loan apps, to target unsuspecting users globally. McAfee cybersecurity researchers report…...

Google Prevented 2.28 Million Malicious Apps from Reaching Play Store in 2023

Google on Monday revealed that almost 200,000 app submissions to its Play Store for Android were either rejected or remediated to address issues with access to sensitive data such as location or SMS messages over the past year. The tech giant also said it blocked 333,000 bad accounts from the app...

This Cybercrime Syndicate Pre-Infected Over 8.9 Million Android Phones Worldwide

A cybercrime enterprise known as Lemon Group is leveraging millions of pre-infected Android smartphones worldwide to carry out their malicious operations, posing significant supply chain risks. "The infection turns these devices into mobile proxies, tools for stealing and selling SMS messages,...

Intel® Connect M Android App Advisory

Summary: Potential security vulnerabilities in the Intel® Connect M Android application may allow escalation of privilege or denial of service. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details: CVEID: CVE-2022-41801 Description: Uncontrolled...

Meta Uncovers Massive Social Media Cyber Espionage Operations Across South Asia

Three different threat actors leveraged hundreds of elaborate fictitious personas on Facebook and Instagram to target individuals located in South Asia as part of disparate attacks. "Each of these APTs relied heavily on social engineering to trick people into clicking on malicious links,...

Google Blocks 1.43 Million Malicious Apps, Bans 173,000 Bad Accounts in 2022

Google disclosed that its improved security features and app review processes helped it block 1.43 million bad apps from being published to the Play Store in 2022. In addition, the company said it banned 173,000 bad accounts and fended off over $2 billion in fraudulent and abusive transactions...

ASB-A-237766679

In startInstrumentation of ActivityManagerService.java, there is a possible way to keep the foreground service alive while the app is in the background. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation...

Design/Logic Flaw

The YouTube Embedded 1.2 SDK binds to a service within the YouTube Main App. After binding, a remote context is created with the flags Context.CONTEXTINCLUDECODE | Context.CONTEXTIGNORESECURITY. This allows the client app to remotely load code from YouTube Main App by retrieving the Main App’s...

CVE-2023-0460 Remote code execution in YouTube Android Player API SDK

The YouTube Embedded 1.2 SDK binds to a service within the YouTube Main App. After binding, a remote context is created with the flags Context.CONTEXTINCLUDECODE | Context.CONTEXTIGNORESECURITY. This allows the client app to remotely load code from YouTube Main App by retrieving the Main App’s...

ChatGPT Clone Apps Collecting Personal Data on iOS, Play Store

By Waqas Several fake ChatGPT clone apps have surfaced on the official iOS and Play Stores, collecting user data and sending it to remote servers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: ChatGPT Clone Apps Collecting Personal Data on iOS, Play Store...

New Dropper Apps on Play Store Targeting Banking and Crypto Wallets

By Deeba Ahmed In total, 5 dropper apps with over 130,000 downloads through Play Store distributed banking trojans like Vultur and SharkBot. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Dropper Apps on Play Store Targeting Banking and Crypto Wallets...

Malicious Security App on Play Store Caught Dropping SharkBot Malware

By Deeba Ahmed SharkBot malware is known for spreading itself through fake security solution apps on Google Play Store. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Malicious Security App on Play Store Caught Dropping SharkBot Malware...

Adware found on Google Play — PDF Reader serving up full screen ads

A PDF reader found on Google Play with over one million downloads is aggressively displaying full screen ads, even when the app is not in use. More specifically, the reader is known as PDF reader - documents viewer, package name com.document.pdf.viewer. As a result, this aggressive behavior lands...

New DawDropper Malware Targeting Android Devices via Play Store

By Waqas According to Trend Micro researchers, the DawDropper aims at stealing user data, in particular from banking apps on… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New DawDropper Malware Targeting Android Devices via Play Store...

Google Bringing the Android App Permissions Section Back to the Play Store

Google on Thursday said it's backtracking on a recent change that removed the app permissions list from the Google Play Store for Android across both the mobile app and the web. "Privacy and transparency are core values in the Android community," the Android Developers team said in a series of...

Google Removes "App Permissions" List from Play Store for New "Data Safety" Section

Following the launch of a new "Data safety" section for the Android app on the Play Store, Google appears to be readying to remove the app permissions list from both the mobile app and the web. The change was highlighted by Esper's Mishaal Rahman earlier this week. The Data safety section, which...