Android Attacks—Google Confirms No Fix For 30% Of All Phones

More than 30% of Android phones still run Android 12 or older. That’s bad enough. But OEMs take time to deploy these fixes, ...

Reboot Your Device—New Warning Issued For All iPhone And Android Users

The cyber agency urges users not to delay updating and rebooting devices. That means do it now. That happens anyway with a ...
TechCrunch

This sneaky Android spyware needs a password to uninstall. Here’s how to remove it without one.

Consumer-grade phone surveillance apps aren’t only intended to stay stealthy; some of these apps are also making it increasingly difficult to remove them ...
Android

[UPDATE: Google statement] Android users targeted by two new spyware threats

UPDATE: Google’s spokesperson reached out with a statement. The company has confirmed “that users are automatically protected from known versions of this spyware by Google Play Protect, which is on by ...
Infosecurity Magazine

ClayRat Android Spyware Expands Capabilities

A new iteration of the ClayRat Android spyware featuring expanded surveillance and device-control functions has been ...
Android

Android spyware “NoviSpy” found installed on a journalist’s phone

Imagine police pulling you over for a routine traffic stop and then taking you to the station. After your release, you notice your phone behaving suspiciously. This is what happened to Serbian ...
Bleeping Computer

Android spyware campaigns impersonate Signal and ToTok messengers

Two new spyware campaigns that researchers call ProSpy and ToSpy lured Android users with fake upgrades or plugins for the Signal and ToTok messaging apps to steal sensitive data. To give the ...
Bleeping Computer

Russian cyberspies target Android users with new spyware

Russian cyberspies Gamaredon has been discovered using two Android spyware families named 'BoneSpy' and 'PlainGnome' to spy on and steal data from mobile devices. According to Lookout, which ...
HHS

Android Spyware Targets UAE Messaging Users

Two Android spyware campaigns using previously undocumented spyware masquerade as upgrades or plugins for secure messaging apps Signal and ToTok, warn researchers. The two campaigns appear to target ...
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Fake WhatsApp and TikTok Apps Are Spreading New Android Spyware

The post Fake WhatsApp and TikTok Apps Are Spreading New Android Spyware appeared first on EURweb | Black News, Culture, Entertainment & More. In this photo illustration, the Facebook, Instagram, ...
Dark Reading

Android Spyware in the UAE Masquerades as ... Spyware

Hackers are spreading two families of mobile spyware around the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by masking them as the ToTok app. Ironically, thanks to the peculiar history and cultural standing it enjoys ...
Computerworld

Android spyware infections on the rise

The vast majority of mobile devices infected with malware are running the Android operating system and a third of the top 20 malware threats for Android by infection rate fall into the spyware ...