GravityRAT targeting WhatsApp Backups
Researchers have spotted an updated version of the Android GravityRAT spyware targeting WhatsApp backups. GravityRAT is a remote access tool that has been observed since at least 2015. It was…
Google Play Store Security Enhancement Outcomes
Google has said that it prevented 1.43 million policy-violating applications from being published on Google Play in 2022. It also announced it has banned 173k developer accounts and prevented over…
Shein App Exposing Data On Android
An older version of Shein shopping application, which has over 100 million downloads in Google Play, unnecessarily accessed the clipboard of Android devices and transmitted the contents to a remote…
EarSpy – Android New Attack Vector
A new evolving eavesdropping attack has been developed by a team of security experts for Android devices, dubbed EarSpy. With this attack type, threat actors can get hands-on sensitive content.…
Zombinder Malvertises Legitimate Apps
Researchers have discovered an obfuscation platform named Zombinder on darknet that attaches malware to legitimate Android applications to lure users to install the malicious payload and make it difficult for…
Amazon Photos Android App Flaw
Researchers have spotted a critical vulnerability affecting the Amazon Photos app on Android. When exploited this could allow a malicious application installed on the user’s phone to steal their Amazon…
Google Publishes Android Security Bulletin – June 2022
Google has published its Android Security Bulletin for June, which contains details of over 40 security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices and related patches. The most severe of these issues was…
Pre-installed Android Apps a threat
The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has discovered four vulnerabilities trackd as CVE-2021-42598, CVE-2021-42599- Comnand injection Vulnerability, CVE-2021-42600, and CVE-2021-42601- Privilege Escalation vulnerability, in a mobile framework, owned by mce Systems, that…