Mobile Archives - Page 18 of 20

This wallpaper will crash your Android phone: don’t try it.

In what can be described as a truly mysterious phenomenon, an image of a picturesque lake, when set as wallpaper on select Samsung and Google Pixel devices, causes the phone screen and the device to go nuts. […]

01 May

Hackers breach company’s MDM server to spread Android malware

Attackers infected more than 75% of a multinational conglomerate’s managed Android devices with the Cerberus banking trojan using the company’s compromised Mobile Device Manager (MDM) server. […]

30 Apr

New Android malware steals financial information, bypasses 2FA

A new banking Trojan can steal financial information from Android users across the United States and several European countries, including the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and France. […]

19 Apr

Windows 10: Manage Reserved Storage from the command line

In a couple of weeks, Windows May 2020 Update will begin rolling out to consumers and enterprises and it will arrive with the ability to manage Reserved Storage from the command line. […]

22 Mar

Israel Govt’s New ‘Shield’ App Tracks Your Coronavirus Exposure

The Israeli Ministry of Health has released a new mobile app called “The Shield” that will alert users if they have been at a location in Israel at the same time as a known Coronavirus patient. […]

06 Feb

Phishing Attack Disables Google Play Protect, Drops Anubis Trojan

Android users are targeted in a phishing campaign that will infect their devices with the Anubis banking Trojan that can steal financial information from more than 250 banking and shopping applications. […]

04 Feb

WhatsApp Bug Allowed Attackers to Access the Local File System

Facebook patched a critical WhatsApp vulnerability that would have allowed potential attackers to read files from a user’s local file system, on both macOS and Windows platforms. […]

11 Jan

Android Trojan Kills Google Play Protect, Spews Fake App Reviews

An Android malware strain camouflaged as a system app is used by threat actors to disable the Google Play Protect service, generate fake reviews, install malicious apps, show ads, and more. […]

10 Jan

Google Removed Over 1.7K Joker Malware Infected Apps from Play Store

Roughly 1,700 applications infected with the Joker Android malware (also known as Bread) have been detected and removed by Google’s Play Protect from the Play Store since the company started tracking it in early 2017. […]

03 Dec

80% of All Android Apps Now Use Encrypted Network Traffic

Google has announced that as of October 2019, 80% of all Android apps are now using Transport Layer Security (TLS) to encrypt their network traffic. […]

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