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Threatening rogue finance apps removed from the Apple Store

July 11, 2023 admin .loan, App, apple store, Blackmail, deepfake, deepfakes, fake, finance, google, India, morph, personal, Play store, rogue, sextortion, threaten

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Multiple finance apps have been removed from the App Store after making dubious charges and issuing blackmail threats and other awful behavior.

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Apps removed from Google Play for harvesting user data

April 12, 2022 admin Android, collection, data, email, Mobile, phone number, Play store, privacy, SDK

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:48:05 +0000

We take a look at a collection of apps which were all harvesting user data via an SDK promising “monetisation”.

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Old Play Store apps served notice by upcoming API level changes

April 11, 2022 admin Android, api, change, Mobile, Play store, update

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:25:29 +0000

We take a look at upcoming changes in Android land which could see a lot of old, unsupported apps slowly fading from public view.

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Xenomorph banking Trojan downloaded over 50,000 times from Play Store

February 22, 2022 admin accessibility services, alien, Android, banking Trojan, overlays, Play store, xenomorph

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:31:51 +0000

Researchers found a new banking Trojan called Xenomorph that has been downloaded over 50,000 times from the Google Play Store

Categories: Android

Tags: accessibility Services alien banking Trojan overlays Play Store Xenomorph

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Independent MotherBoard Security

More Than 1 Million People Downloaded a Fake WhatsApp Android App

November 3, 2017 admin Android, apps, cybersecurity, google, google play store, hacking, infosec, news, Play store, Tech News, WhatsApp

Credit to Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 18:46:27 +0000

The Google Play Store is still filled with malicious copycats of legitimate ads.

Independent Krebs

Tech Firms Team Up to Take Down ‘WireX’ Android DDoS Botnet

August 28, 2017 admin Akamai, Allison Nixon, Android malware, Chad Seaman, ddos, distributed denial-of-service attack, Flashpoint, google, Mirai, Other, Play store, WireX botnet

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:06:08 +0000

A half dozen technology and security companies — some of them competitors — issued the exact same press release today. This unusual level of cross-industry collaboration caps a successful effort to dismantle ‘WireX,’ an extraordinary new crime machine comprising tens of thousands of hacked Android mobile devices that was used this month to launch a series of massive cyber attacks. Experts involved in the takedown warn that WireX marks the emergence of a new class of attack tools that are more challenging to defend against and thus require broader industry cooperation to defeat.