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Credit to Author: Bajrang Mane| Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 07:27:59 +0000
Quick Heal Security Labs detected an Android Banking Trojan that targets more than 232 banking apps including Indian banks. The malware is known as Android.banker.A9480. Like most other Android banking malware, even this one is designed for stealing login credentials, hijacking SMSs, uploading contact lists and SMSs on a malicious…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 14:00:59 +0000
Tips to utilizing app permissions in the world’s most popular mobile operating system. – by Ian Grutze, Senior Global Product Manager Mobile devices are amazing tools that can enrich your life in many ways. Need to solve a problem…? There’s probably an app for that. As these devices mature, and as we weave them into our daily…
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 03:34:00 -0800
As enterprises push ahead with mobile-first strategies – and employee smartphones and tablets increasingly becoming business tools – the importance of mobile threat defense (MTD) is growing.
Using mobile threat detection and defense, however, is no small task; the technology must cover applications, networks and device-level threats to iOS and Android phones and tablets to be effective.
“We talk about mobile threat defense, rather than detection – the reason being these solutions not only detect, but also can prevent and remediate threats,” said Dionisio Zumerle, research director for mobile security at Gartner.
The MTD market is growing in terms of adoption, and has started to attract attention from endpoint protection platform (EPP) vendors and in other related markets, according to a recent report from Gartner.
Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 08:00:55 +0000
2017 ist fast schon wieder Geschichte und damit beginnt die Saison der Jahresrückblicke. SophosLabs hat die Schadware in 2017 analysiert und Prognosen erstellt. Ein dominantes Security-Thema in 2017 ist Malware für Mobilgeräte, vornehmlich für Android. SophosLabs analysierte, dass es bis Ende 2017 geschätzte 10 Millionen verdächtige Android-Apps geben wird, darunter auch Ransomware, wie sie beispielsweise […]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=43966&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/GNYFwr8qIb0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read MoreCredit to Author: Anand Singh| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:08:51 +0000
Recently we had blogged about a fake WhatsApp app on Google Play. And soon after we started observing more fake apps getting hosted on Google Play. Interestingly, these fake apps were having good ratings and download count which clearly suggest the growing trend of fake apps in the Android world….
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Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 09:36:00 -0800
Android security is always a hot topic on these here Nets of Inter — and almost always for the wrong reason.
As we’ve discussed ad nauseam over the years, most of the missives you read about this-or-that super-scary malware/virus/brain-eating-boogie-monster are overly sensationalized accounts tied to theoretical threats with practically zero chance of actually affecting you in the real world. If you look closely, in fact, you’ll start to notice that the vast majority of those stories stem from companies that — gasp! — make their money selling malware protection programs for Android phones. (Pure coincidence, right?)
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Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 08:34:00 -0800
I’ve written a lot about Android security over the years — and more often than not, it’s the same ol’ story time and time again:
A company that sells mobile security software finds some theoretical threat — something that (a) hasn’t affected any actual users in the real world and (b) couldn’t affect any actual users in the real world, outside of a highly improbable scenario in which all native security measures are disabled and the user goes out of his way to download a questionable-looking app from some shady porn forum.
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Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:24:07 +0000
Just last week, more than 1 million Android users downloaded a fake WhatsApp app from the Google Play Store. The app (removed now) went by the name ‘Update WhatsApp Messenger’. As you may notice in the image below, the developer title is ‘WhatsApp Inc.’ which is the same one used…
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