No free lunch with free Android VPN apps, CSIRO finds
If you installed a free Android VPN app to view geo-blocked content on your phone, there’s a high chance it was harboring malware, according to new research.
If you installed a free Android VPN app to view geo-blocked content on your phone, there’s a high chance it was harboring malware, according to new research.
An old banking trojan that was once limited to Russia has been updated to catch Australian banking customers.
Russian speaking hackers are targeting Android devices installed with apps from nearly all Australian banks in order to intercept SMS codes used to authorise transactions.
Malware researchers reckon the Hacking Team leak has given criminals a “weaponised” toolset that could be used to hack half a billion Android users.
According to new figures from the US’s largest mobile carrier, the Android malware problem is "truly negligible" but adware could become one.
This app could save your older Android phone from being hijacked. Specifically, the Installer Hijacking Scanner app from the Google Play store is designed to check for a vulnerability that was discovered over a year ago and still hasn't been resolved.
Tony Bradley | 26 Mar | Read more
Every year, our inboxes get hit with a flood of press releases and announcements with predictions for the next year. Well, we're into November and the predictions for infosec in 2015 have started arriving.
Anthony Caruana | 14 Nov | Read more
Research on Android malware called KorBanker has uncovered a treasure trove of text messages that include authentication codes for Google and Facebook and VPN passwords.
Antone Gonsalves | 05 Sep | Read more
University researchers have built an Android app that secretly snatches valuable personal data from other mobile apps, such as webmail, shopping and online banking.
Antone Gonsalves | 23 Aug | Read more
A new report uncovers a sophisticated Russian market for Android malware driven by startup-like houses which peddle their wares to a vibrant ecosystem of distributors.
Discovery the latest example of a growing market in commoditized services for mobile like those available for infected Windows machines
Antone Gonsalves | 16 Jul | Read more
Android smartphones and tablets are under attack, and the most popular tools developed to protect them are easily circumvented, according to new research from Northwestern University and the University of North Carolina.
Samsung is set to put the ever-more-tarnished security reputation of Google’s Android operating system to the test by submitting three of its flagship products for testing against the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD)’s Australasian Information Security Evaluation Program (AISEP).
David Braue | 29 May | Read more
The BadNews ad framework fooled Google Play for weeks, sending fake update notifications for apps such as Skype
Antone Gonsalves | 23 Apr | Read more
Cisco has 60,000 Internet-connected devices in its BYOD program at the end of 2012 and just under 14,000 were iPads, the company says in its 2013 Annual Security Report.