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Researchers at AdaptiveMobile Security have described a Simjacker attack that uses SMS messages to send SIM Toolkit (STK) and S @ T Browser instructions on a SIM card. For more than two years, cybercriminals have been monitoring SIM card owners using Simjacker. Experts have warned that this attack is not …

At the end of last week, Google Project Zero experts said that unnamed sites attacked iPhone users for more than two years using 14 vulnerabilities combined in five exploit chains. It seems that Google-caught iPhone crackers have also attacked Android and Windows users. Compromise occurred without any user’s involvement, it …

Google has officially announced that it is expanding its bug bounty rewards program. Researchers will now be able to earn money by detecting misuse of users’ data, as well as finding vulnerabilities in any Android applications with more than 100 million installations. The first innovation will be the DDPRP program, …

Kaspersky Lab experts found an ad dropper in the CamScanner application on Google Play, which was downloaded more than 100 million times. The application is designed to recognize text on photographed documents and create PDF files. It can also be found under a slightly different name, for example CamScanner – …

Another spyware program managed to bypass the filters of Google Play Store, the official store of applications for Android. The talk is about the AhMyth component implemented in a legitimate program, the source code of which has been available on GitHub for more than two years. AhMyth is a remote …

In the spring of this year, Google developers introduced the Password Checkup extension for the Chrome browser, created in conjunction with specialists from Stanford University. The main objective of the extension was to check whether the user’s passwords has been compromised. The extension starts every time a user logs into …

Researchers at Palo Alto Networks discovered 34 million vulnerabilities in large cloud services. According to experts, the problems arose not through the fault of providers, but because of applications that clients deploy to the cloud. According to a report covering the period from January 2018 to June 2019, experts discovered …

Doctor Web analysts have revealed yet another trojan in the Google Play application directory. The threat received the identifier Android.Click.312.origin and is a classic clicker, so it is used to increase website visits and monetize online traffic. Malware was built into the most common at first glance applications (the list …

Researchers concluded that large IT-companies, such as Facebook and Google, monitor porn sites users. Authors of the research, specialists from Microsoft Research, Carnegie Melon University and University of Pennsylvania analyzed 22,484 porn sites and found that 93% of them transfer data to third parties, including cases of access through the …

Avast specialists discovered seven spyware applications for ordinary users (the so-called stalkerware) in the Google Play directory. Although these products regularly removed from the catalog, as the rules of Google Play strictly prohibit the distribution of such solutions, many of them manage still to gain thousands of installations. Such issue …