Developers should know this truism from childhood: Always knock before entering. But they don’t. For developers of cryptominers – the little programs designed to mine cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum on your devices – the differences between knocking and just quietly barging ...
Most malware keeps a low profile. But apps containing Hiddad, an ad-distributing malware for Androids, get lots of 5-star ratings from infected users – and not for the usual reasons. Hiddad is presented as a YouTube downloading app and usually ...
This new threat is identical in behavior with the Locker A described in detail on our blog a couple of weeks ago and it is currently detected by Avira as Android/Locker.F. This time the offending application is posing as a “Porn Player”, and ...
Method of infection This malware is tricking the phone users into thinking they are downloading some useful software with names like flash player update, video player, browser update, system update or even some porn app. Newer variants come bundled inside other ...
How important are your passwords? Since the dawn of the computer age we’ve been using computers as extensions of ourselves, saving our memories to photo archives and journals, our preferences to playlists and documents and our decisions to calendars and to-do ...