Facebook found 400 malicious apps that steal your login – here’s how to protect yourself
In a blog post, Meta says that more than 400 malicious Android and iOS apps that tried to steal people’s Facebook login credentials in 2022 …
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Reports are circulating this week about a new Android app to be wary of — it’s called SHAREit, an app that has both an iOS …
This ‘Joker’ Android malware sounds like something a heinous villain would design
Google has removed another batch of Android apps from the Google Play Store after analysts with Check Point Research discovered these apps connected to the …
56 Android apps with malware were downloaded 1 million times before being discovered
Android malware is arguably less prevalent than it was a few years ago, but it still remains a serious and all too common issue. Recently, …
Delete these nasty Android apps that can log in to your Google and Facebook accounts right now
No sooner did we report on Wednesday the presence of a new batch of scammy Android apps that had to be removed from the Google …
Google is finally cutting down on Android app notification overload
For a few months now, Android users have been taking to Reddit and Google Support forums to question the seeming disappearance of Google Play Store …
Make sure you don’t have any of these 17 sketchy Google Play apps on your phone
The Google Play Store’s unending game of sketchy app whack-a-mole shows no sign of letting up anytime soon, as researchers with cybersecurity company Bitdefender on …
Google finally gets serious about protecting you from malicious Android apps
Every so often, we report on discoveries from security researchers who warn of newly identified batches of bad Android apps, often only after they’ve racked …
Yet again, adware-infected Android apps rack up millions of Google Play Store downloads
Researchers associated with ESET, a cybersecurity research company, have uncovered the latest variant of a scheme we’ve been reporting on different iterations of for a …
Startling investigation finds that simple flashlight apps on Android request up to 77 permissions
Even though a flashlight capability is now native to the latest smartphones, if you search long enough you can still find hundreds of flashlight apps …
Once again, Google Play Store apps with ties to China are wreaking havoc
Google has made headlines in recent months, both here and elsewhere, for its crackdown on malicious apps in its proprietary app marketplace, as well as …
New Google Play Store rules want to make the store safer for kids
Via its Android Developers Blog on Wednesday, Google announced an important series of changes that apply to every single app in the Google Play Store …
The Google Play Store is nagging some users to get rid of old apps
There have been a handful of updates to the Google Play Store’s operation that garnered headlines in recent days, such as the news that apps’ …
Google bans one of the biggest Android app developers from the Play Store
On the heels of the revelation last week, via a BuzzFeed analysis, that several of the most-downloaded apps from the Google Play Store were caught …
Avoid these Android apps like the plague
Revelations about apps from the Google Play Store sneaking past available protections and collecting gobs of user data without permission are nothing new, but a …
