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Tag: mobile malware
Pre-installed auto installer threat found on Android mobile devices in Germany
Users primarily located in Germany are experiencing malware that downloads and installs on their Gigaset mobile devices—right out of the box! The…
Who is to blame for the malicious Barcode Scanner that got on the Google Play store?
In our last blog, Barcode Scanner app on Google Play infects 10 million users with one update, we wrote about a…
Cyberpunk 2077 developer hit by ransomware
CD PROJEKT RED, the game developer behind Cyberpunk 2077, announced earlier on Twitter that it has fallen victim to a targeted…
Barcode Scanner app on Google Play infects 10 million users with one update
UPDATE: February 12, 2021 It has come to our attention that there is another bad actor in this story. Apparently, the…
We found yet another phone with pre-installed malware via the Lifeline Assistance program
We have discovered, yet again, another phone model with pre-installed malware provided from the Lifeline Assistance program via Assurance Wireless by…
Android Trojan xHelper uses persistent re-infection tactics: here’s how to remove
We first stumbled upon the nasty Android Trojan xHelper, a stealthy malware dropper, in May 2019. By mid-summer 2019, xHelper was topping…
United States government-funded phones come pre-installed with unremovable malware
UPDATE: July 31, 2020 Months after publishing this first investigation into government-funded mobile phones, we were contacted by a concerned user…
Stealthy new Android malware poses as ad blocker, serves up ads instead
Since its discovery less than a month ago, a new Trojan malware for Android we detect as Android/Trojan.FakeAdsBlock has already been…
Mobile Menace Monday: Android Trojan raises xHelper
Back in May, we classified what we believed was just another generic Android/Trojan.Dropper, and moved on. We didn’t give this particular…