Tag Archives: malware

Google’s Project Zero security researchers have revealed that they found several hacked websites that slipped malware onto people’s iPhones for years. If people visited one of the sites, their messages, photos and location data could have been compromised. The team reported its findings to Apple earlier this year, and the vulnerability was patched in the same …

Website publishers and companies that show ads on them can track you from one site to another, creating a profile on your interests intended to show ads more targeted toward your likely interests. But that can significantly impair your privacy, and browsers are starting to crack down. Apple on Wednesday published a policy governing how its Safari browser will block …

Keeping your Android device safe from malware is difficult enough as it is — but it’s an entirely different threat when the harmful apps come with your device. Android’s open-source operating system allows for more affordable alternatives for millions of people, but it also opens the door for hackers to sneak in prepackaged malware. Preinstalled malware had been discovered on …

Facebook said Tuesday it’s suing two app developers in Asia for making money from advertising fraud, highlighting how the social network is cracking down on abuse on the platform. The app developers LionMobi in Hong Kong and JediMobi in Singapore released apps on the Google Play Store that infected a user’s phone with malware to make it appear as if …

Millions of AT&T phones were illegally unlocked thanks to bribes taken by company employees to infect the carrier’s mobile network with malware that gathered info on proprietary protections, the US Department of Justice alleges. Unauthorized hardware is also alleged to have been used, court documents unsealed Monday showed. According to CNET sister site ZDNet, a case was opened against Muhammad Fahd, a …

When Google unveiled its Advanced Protection Program in 2017, the tool was specifically meant to prevent hackers from taking over people’s Gmail accounts. But there are more ways for hackers to attack people than hijacking an email inbox. On Tuesday, Google said it’s expanding the program to help block out malware via Chrome.  While the APP sought to prevent hacked Google …

Things haven’t been looking great for Android users’ privacy recently. After Google purged 50 malicious apps from its Play store with upward of 25 million downloads a couple of years back, another 200 Android apps were found infected with malware in March, followed by July’s discovery of 1,000-plus Android apps harvesting data even after you deny permissions and a Chrome …

Malicious software that wants to steal your passwords is on the rise, according to new research from Kaspersky. Fewer than 600,000 consumers were targeted by password-stealing malware in the first half of 2018, according to a release Tuesday from the security firm. During the same period in 2019, that number rose to over 940,000 — a 60% increase.  The culprits are …

With this vulnerability, what you see on WhatsApp and Telegram might not be what was sent. Despite the secure messaging apps’ end-to-end encryption protecting people from government surveillance, researchers from Symantec disclosed flaws that could allow potential hackers to alter images and audio files.  While the sender might have sent, say, a photo of a map, malware could exploit this …

The Chinese government is reportedly forcing foreigners to download malware onto their phones when crossing into the country. The malware downloads people’s text messages, phone logs and calendar entries, and scans the device for around 73,000 other files, according to a joint investigation by The New York Times, the Guardian, Motherboard, Süddeutsche Zeitung and German broadcaster NDR. The reports follow …