NowSecure Lab cloud: Mobile app assessment environment
NowSecure was one of the companies that caught my attention at this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. While it initially seemed like a new player in the field, the …
Flawed Android backup mechanism can lead to injected malicious apps
A flaw (CVE-2014-7952) in Android’s backup/restore mechanism can be exploited by knowledgeable developers to “respawn” malicious apps on phones, and make …
Popular Android games unmasked as phishing tools
“ESET researchers have discovered a new, ingenious, yet very simple Facebook phishing scheme: playable Android games that, before they are started, ask users to enter …
Fake Android battery monitor app thoroughly compromises users’ devices
“Downloading apps from Google Play is a safer proposition than doing it from third party markets, but despite Google using an automated app scanning service …
4,900 new Android malware strains discovered every day
“G DATA security experts discovered 440,267 new Android malware strains in the first quarter of 2015, which means that a new mobile malware strain for Android was …
Instapaper for Android vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks
Bitdefender researchers have discovered that Android app Instapaper is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks that could expose users’ signup/login credentials when logging …
Many popular Android apps fail to encrypt login credentials
Using encryption to protect mobile traffic and especially the exchange of credentials between the user and company servers should be a must in this day and age. Unfortunately, …
Keyboard app bug puts millions of Samsung mobile users at risk, researcher claims
A vulnerability in the Swift keyboard, which comes pre-installed on Samsung mobile devices, can be exploited by remote attackers to secretly install malicious apps, access the …
Google announces reward program for Android bugs
Google has announced that it will start paying researchers for information about vulnerabilities affecting Android.The Android Security Rewards are incremental. “For …
Trojanized Sberbank mobile app lurking on third-party stores
“A Trojanized Android version of the Sberbank online banking mobile application is being distributed via third-party online stores and file-sharing sites, warns Russian …
Researchers track Android users by collecting accelerator readings
A group of researchers from Nanjing University, China, have demonstrated that Android users’ movements can be tracked by simply analyzing the data provided by the …
15,000 spam emails have hit the inboxes of Android users in recent days
“Thousands of Android users are at risk of having their mobile devices and private contents locked by a particularly ruthless ransomware that demands $500 to restore …