Monitoring software has developed quickly, adding surveillance functions and capabilities. No longer is this restricted to state organizations buying access to NSO spyware, it’s now available to for about anyone with a smartphone. The fast growth in mobile device ...
Clientor may look like a well-behaved voice message app, asking for permission to do just the right things, but it is quietly setting up your device to be its secret proxy server. Creating a proxy server in an Android smartphone could ...
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 ...