New Android bug can put devices into a coma
In the wake of the explosive discovery of the Android Stagefright vulnerability, Trend Micro researchers have revealed the existence of another, similar one that can make …
Hacking Team’s RCS Android: The most sophisticated Android malware ever exposed
“As each day passes and researchers find more and more source code in the huge Hacking Team data dump, it becomes more clear what the company’s customers could do …
Hacking Team used fake app hosted on Google Play to install its spyware on Android devices
“The massive Hacking Team data leak includes the source code of a fake Android news app and instructions on how to use it, Trend Micro researchers have found. The app, …
NowSecure Lab cloud: Mobile app assessment environment
NowSecure was one of the companies that caught my attention at this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. While it initially seemed like a new player in the field, the …
Flawed Android backup mechanism can lead to injected malicious apps
A flaw (CVE-2014-7952) in Android’s backup/restore mechanism can be exploited by knowledgeable developers to “respawn” malicious apps on phones, and make …
Popular Android games unmasked as phishing tools
“ESET researchers have discovered a new, ingenious, yet very simple Facebook phishing scheme: playable Android games that, before they are started, ask users to enter …
Fake Android battery monitor app thoroughly compromises users’ devices
“Downloading apps from Google Play is a safer proposition than doing it from third party markets, but despite Google using an automated app scanning service …
4,900 new Android malware strains discovered every day
“G DATA security experts discovered 440,267 new Android malware strains in the first quarter of 2015, which means that a new mobile malware strain for Android was …
Instapaper for Android vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks
Bitdefender researchers have discovered that Android app Instapaper is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks that could expose users’ signup/login credentials when logging …
Many popular Android apps fail to encrypt login credentials
Using encryption to protect mobile traffic and especially the exchange of credentials between the user and company servers should be a must in this day and age. Unfortunately, …
Keyboard app bug puts millions of Samsung mobile users at risk, researcher claims
A vulnerability in the Swift keyboard, which comes pre-installed on Samsung mobile devices, can be exploited by remote attackers to secretly install malicious apps, access the …
Google announces reward program for Android bugs
Google has announced that it will start paying researchers for information about vulnerabilities affecting Android.The Android Security Rewards are incremental. “For …