A Mobile App Scanner is Not Just Another App

Mobile applications assist us mightily with our daily tasks. They increase our productivity with anywhere, anytime, high-functioning tools, and they help us communicate and share information with family members, friends, and co-workers. Every day, the rapidly evolving app market brings us more ap...

Shaoxing Public Security App for Android has information leakage vulnerability

Shaoxing Public Security APP is a convenient application launched by Shaoxing Public Security Bureau for the public, which provides the functions of inquiry, reservation, declaration and reminder of public security business, such as office service, police-community communication, police-community...

Jiaxing Public Security App Has Arbitrary Account Login Vulnerability

Jiaxing Public Security APP is a convenient mobile application for local people in Jiaxing to find local services, mainly including motor vehicle violation inquiry, immigration office appointment, police news, security, police map, law enforcement public and other functional services. Jiaxing...

BankID säkerhetsapp - Customized SSL, Exported components, External URLs vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application BankID säkerhetsapp published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Privilege escalation

On Lenovo VIBE mobile phones, the Lenovo Security Android application allows private data to be backed up and restored via Android Debug Bridge, which allows tampering leading to privilege escalation in conjunction with CVE-2017-3748 and CVE-2017-3749...

Shuanet Adware Roots Android Devices

A new strain of adware buried in repackaged popular Android applications is able to root devices and earn its keepers a tidy $2 per installation. Shuanet behaves more like malware and shares some heritage with two other adware families—Kemoge and Shedun—that also root devices and give their...

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 app that notifies you whenever GPS enabled apps access your location

A team of Researchers at Rutgers University has developed an Android application which will notify you every time, whenever an app installed on your Smartphone accesses the GPS functionality. Smartphone is a multipurpose device, having features of both a mobile phone and a computer, allowing us t...

'BadNews' Android Malware downloaded up to 9 million times

It appears as if another malware scare has come to Android. Lookout Security said on Friday that it has discovered a new family of malware called BadNews. Malware that avoided detection and made its way onto the Google Play store has been downloaded around 9 million times by users from all over t...

Report: 'Aggressive Adware' More Prevalent Among Android Malware

A new report from Trend Micro showed a 483 percent jump in malware — including “aggressive adware” that harvests person data without permission using legitimate ad networks. It’s no surprise that the open nature of the Android platform makes it a magnet for malware, but the type of malware becomi...

DKFBootKit - First Android BootKit Malware

DKFBootKit - First Android BootKit Malware NQ Mobile Security Research Center has recently uncovered a new malware DKFBootKit. This malware is identified when monitoring and analyzing the evolution of earlier DroidKungFu variants. What sets DKFBootKit apart from malware like DroidDream, is that...