Google Will Now Pay Anyone Who Reports Apps Abusing Users' Data

In the wake of data abuse scandals and several instances of malware app being discovered on the Play Store, Google today expanded its bug bounty program to beef up the security of Android apps and Chrome extensions distributed through its platform. The expansion in Google's vulnerability reward...

Google Will Now Pay Anyone Who Reports Apps Abusing Users' Data

In the wake of data abuse scandals and several instances of malware app being discovered on the Play Store, Google today expanded its bug bounty program to beef up the security of Android apps and Chrome extensions distributed through its platform. The expansion in Google's vulnerability reward...

Google Targets Data-Abusing Apps with Bug Bounty Launch

Google is looking to squash vulnerabilities on its Google Play app marketplace with a new bug-bounty program aimed at identifying data-abuse issues in Android apps and Chrome extensions. The company on Thursday announced the Developer Data Protection Reward Program, which, depending on the impact...

Fully equipped Spying Android RAT from Brazil: BRATA

"BRATA" is a new Android remote access tool malware family. We used this code name based on its description - "Brazilian RAT Android". It exclusively targets victims in Brazil: however, theoretically it could also be used to attack any other Android user if the cybercriminals behind it want to. I...

Malicious App on Google Play Tallies 100 Million Downloads

Call it the case of a good app gone bad! For some time, a handy PDF creator and optical character recognition OCR app available via Google Play offered users utility and convenience. The app, downloaded more than 100 million times, is called CamScanner and allows Android phone owners to snap a...

WARNING — Malware Found in CamScanner Android App With 100+ Million Users

Beware! Attackers can remotely hijack your Android device and steal data stored on it, if you are using free version of CamScanner, a highly-popular Phone PDF creator app with more than 100 million downloads on Google Play Store. So, to be safe, just uninstall the CamScanner app from your Android...

WARNING — Malware Found in CamScanner Android App With 100+ Million Users

Beware! Attackers can remotely hijack your Android device and steal data stored on it, if you are using free version of CamScanner , a highly-popular Phone PDF creator app with more than 100 million downloads on Google Play Store. So, to be safe, just uninstall the CamScanner app from your Androi...

An advertising dropper in Google Play

Recently, the popular CamScanner – Phone PDF creator app caught our attention. According to Google Play, it has been installed more than 100 million times. The developers position it as a solution for scanning and managing digitized documents, but negative user reviews that have been left over th...

Spyware App on Google Play Gets Boot, Returns Days Later

A music-streaming app offered on Google Play, harboring spyware that stole victims’ contacts, files and SMS messages, made its way onto the official Android app marketplace not once, but twice. The spyware was hidden in an app called Radio Balouch also known as RB Music. The app itself was actual...

Security Bulletin: MaaS360 has identified a vulnerability in the MaaS360 Android Application. (CVE-2019-4501)

Summary A vulnerability was identified and remediated in the MaaS360 Android Application version 6.70. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-4501 DESCRIPTION: When using MaaS360 Android application in Android Enterprise Managed Work Profile Mode using Single Sign-On through a web view application...

FAKE APPS!—courtesy of Agent Smith

As new mobile malware sweeps the globe, here’s how to keep your device secure. We’re spending more and more of our lives online and for most of us the door to this digital world is our smartphone. It’s the first thing we look at when we wake up and the last thing we check at night. It’s where we ...

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This Android Security Release Notes contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices which are addressed as part of Android 10. Android 10 devices with a security patch level of 2019-09-01 or later are protected against these issues Android 10, as released on AOSP, has a...

Cerberus Enters the Android Malware Rental Scene

A never-before-seen Android banking trojan, dubbed Cerberus, is being rented out on underground forums by a threat group that likes to engage with the defense community publicly via Twitter. According to a Tuesday posting from ThreatFabric, Cerberus isn’t based on the leaked Anubis source code th...

Android Ransomware Spreads Via 'Sex Simulation Game' Links on Reddit, SMS

Researchers are warning of a new Android ransomware being spread via links in online forums and SMS messages. The malicious links purport to connect back to a sex simulation game, but in reality lead to ransomware that encrypts victims’ files. The Android ransomware, dubbed Android/Filecoder.C, h...

CVE-2019-14363

A stack-based buffer overflow in the upnpd binary running on NETGEAR WNDR3400v3 routers with firmware version 1.0.1.181.0.63 allows an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code via a crafted UPnP SSDP packet...

Cisco IOS Software Network Plug-and-Play Agent Certificate Validation Vulnerability

According to its self-reported version, the installed Cisco IOS software is affected by a vulnerability in the Cisco Network Plug-and-Play PnP agent. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data. The vulnerability exists because the...

Improper check for access to application database (NC-SA-2018-015)

A too permissive check allowed an installed application that contained the Nextcloud client package name to obtain access to the database of the Nextcloud application. At time of disclosure there are no applications with in the Google Play Store that fullfill this requirement...

Cisco IOS XE Software Network Plug-and-Play Agent Certificate Validation Vulnerability

According to its self-reported version, the installed Cisco IOS XE software is affected by a vulnerability in the Cisco Network Plug-and-Play PnP agent. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data. The vulnerability exists because th...

Google Triples Some Bug Bounty Payouts

Google is upping the ante for its Chrome bug bounty rewards program, doubling payouts from $15,000 to $30,000 for “high-quality” reports. It is also tripling baseline payouts for Chrome to $15,000. The bug-bounty pay raise is part of Google’s Chromium open-source project, which supplies the vast...

Over 1,300 Android Apps Caught Collecting Data Even If You Deny Permissions

Smartphones are a goldmine of sensitive data, and modern apps work as diggers that continuously collect every possible information from your devices. The security model of modern mobile operating systems, like Android and iOS, is primarily based on permissions that explicitly define which sensiti...