43 Android apps in Google Play with 2.5M installs loaded ads when a phone screen was off

Experts found 43 Android apps in Google Play with 2.5 million installs that displayed advertisements while a phone’s screen was off. Recently, researchers from McAfee’s Mobile Research Team discovered 43 Android apps in Google Play with 2.5 million installs that loaded advertisements while a phone’s screen was off. The experts pointed out that this behavior […]

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August 8, 2023
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Attackers use dynamic code loading to bypass Google Play store’s malware detections

Threat actors rely on the ‘versioning’ technique to evade malware detections of malicious code uploaded to the Google Play Store. Google Cybersecurity Action Team (GCAT) revealed that threat actors are using a technique called versioning to evade malware detection implemented to detect malicious code uploaded to the Google Play Store. The technique is not new […]

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August 4, 2023
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Android n-day bugs pose zero-day threat

In the Android ecosystem, n-day vulnerabilities are almost as dangerous as zero-days, according to Google’s review of zero-days exploited in the wild in 2022. N-days functioning as zero-days Zero-days are software bugs that are unknown to the ven…

August 1, 2023
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