Google Booted 700,000 Bad Apps From Its Marketplace in 2017

Google set the record straight on Android security Tuesday, announcing that in 2017 it booted 700,000 apps from Google Play for violating marketplace policies. In a blog post titled “How we fought bad apps and malicious developers in 2017,” Google outlined efforts made over the last 12 months to...

Exosrv.com, an ad server for adult sites, tops Malwarebytes detections

Update 12/18/2017: Upon review, we have decided to lift the block on those two ad servers. You can read ExoClick's comments below: At Exoclick we use large resources to ensure that the ads that we serve are clear, clean and issue free. Where malwares and other forms of malvertising are detected...

Google Cracks Down On Nosy Android Apps

Google is cracking down on unwanted and harmful Android apps with a new effort that will show warnings on applications and on third-party websites distributing apps that collect personal data without user consent. The effort is an expansion of the Google Safe Browsing team’s mission to enforce th...

Mobile Menace Monday: Implications of Google Play Protect

Along with the recent release of Google’s new OS, Android 8.0 Oreo, they also released a new security suite known as Google Play Protect. As blogged about in July in Play Protect: Android’s new security system is now available, this new suite has been available since mid-May. To reiterate As note...

Play Protect: Android’s new security system is now available

Play Protect, a security suite for Android devices, was originally introduced in mid-May of this year during the Google I/O conference. And in just a couple of months, the tech giant has made it available for all their mobile users. Play Protect is the amalgamation of Google’s Android security...

Mozilla Fixes 32 Vulnerabilities in Firefox 54

Mozilla fixed 32 vulnerabilities, including a critical bug that could have resulted in a crash, with the release Tuesday of Firefox 54, the latest version of its flagship browser. The critical bug, a use-after-free vulnerability, was dug up by longtime bug hunter Nils. The vulnerability...

Google Adds New Behavior-Based Malware Scanner To Every Android Device

In order to keep its billions of users safe, Google has introduced another security defense for its Android devices, called Google Play Protect. Google Play Protect, which is part of the Google Play Store app, uses machine learning and app usage analysis to weed out the dangerous and malicious...

Google Shuts Down Docs Phishing Spree

Google said it has disabled offending accounts involved in a widespread spree of phishing emails today impersonating Google Docs. The emails, at the outset, targeted journalists primarily and attempted to trick victims into granting the malicious application permission to access the user’s Google...

Online Malware & URL Analysis: MalSub

Online Malware & URL Analysis malsub is a Python 3.6.x framework that wraps several web services of online malware and URL analysis sites through their RESTful Application Programming Interfaces APIs . It supports submitting files or URLs for analysis, retrieving reports by hash values, domains,...

Google to Red Flag 'Repeat Offender' Web Sites

Google upped the ante on Tuesday on its Safe Browsing efforts to warn users of questionable websites with the introduction of a Repeat Offender designation. The designation, Google says, builds on the company’s existing Safe Browsing warning system that blocks access to sites that are in violatio...

Google Chrome < 53.0.2785.113 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Google Chrome SafeBrowsing Security Bypass Vulnerability

Google Chrome is a popular web browser. A security vulnerability exists in Google Chrome that allows remote attackers to build malicious web pages that can be exploited to trick users into parsing and bypassing the SafeBrowsing protection mechanism...

CVE-2016-5176

Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113 allows remote attackers to bypass the SafeBrowsing protection mechanism via unspecified vectors...

Google Chrome Logic Error Safe Browsing Bypass Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass restrictions on vulnerable installations of Google Chrome. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of Safe...

chromium-browser: SafeBrowsing protection mechanism bypass

Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113 allows remote attackers to bypass the SafeBrowsing protection mechanism via unspecified vectors...

Google Shares Android Nougat, Safe Browsing Security Enhancements

Google this week shared with developers security enhancements it has added to the new Nougat version of Android and additional security features for webmasters via Safe Browsing to help pinpoint harmful content on websites. Under the banner of its nine-year-long Safe Browsing initiative, Google...

New Gmail Alerts Warn of Unauthenticated Senders

Google is expected soon to begin a gradual rollout of new security features in Gmail that warn users if the system could not authenticate the sender of an email message. Starting this week for browser-based users of Gmail and Android users, Google will display a question mark over a sender’s...

chromium-browser: http download of software removal tool

browser/safebrowsing/srtfieldtrialwin.cc in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63 does not use the HTTPS service on dl.google.com to obtain the Software Removal Tool, which allows remote attackers to spoof the chromecleanuptool.exe aka CCT file via a man-in-the-middle attack on an HTTP session...

Direct Communication with Webmasters Fixes Bugs Quicker

Google has trumpeted its Safe Browsing alerts as a key component in redirecting victims away from potentially malicious websites. An offshoot of that work is that apparently webmasters heed those warnings too and remediate vulnerabilities and bugs quicker. A co-branded study between Google and th...

Google Updates Safe Browsing Alerts for Network Admins

Google beefed up the way it displays Safe Browsing Alerts for Network Administrators this week, adding information about sites peddling unwanted and malicious software as well as those caught carrying out social engineering attacks. Google debuted the service, which notifies network admins after...