Consumer-grade phone surveillance apps aren’t only intended to stay stealthy; some of these apps are also making it increasingly difficult to remove them ...
ESET researchers have identified five campaigns targeting Android users with trojanized apps. Most probably carried out by the Arid Viper APT group, these campaigns started in 2022 and three of them ...
Google is narrowing the gap to iPhone on the security and privacy front with Android 15. A raft of welcome changes will better protect users, their devices and their data, including live threat ...
A new version of the Android spyware 'Mandrake' has been found in five applications downloaded 32,000 times from Google Play, the platform's official app store. Bitdefender first documented Mandrake ...
The security researchers at Lookout recently discovered Russia’s Gamaredon Group using two Android spyware families, BoneSpy and PlainGnome, for spying and data theft purposes. These are the first ...
ESET researchers have uncovered two Android spyware campaigns targeting individuals interested in secure communication apps, namely Signal and ToTok. These campaigns distribute malware through ...
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Smartphones have become the most intimate devices in our lives, quietly logging where we go, who we talk to, and what we ...
Android already warns when your location is being tracked — but not by which apps. That puts the onus on users to play ...
Ever feel like your phone is listening to you when it shouldn't be? Credit: Getty Images / Qi Yang / Moment We've all had that eerie feeling that our phone is listening to every word we say. And for ...
Two Android spyware campaigns using previously undocumented spyware masquerade as upgrades or plugins for secure messaging apps Signal and ToTok, warn researchers. The two campaigns appear to target ...
A new Android spyware called ClayRat is luring potential victims by posing as popular apps and services like WhatsApp, Google Photos, TikTok, and YouTube. The malware is targeting Russian users ...
UPDATE: Google’s spokesperson reached out with a statement. The company has confirmed “that users are automatically protected from known versions of this spyware by Google Play Protect, which is on by ...