In a previous blog McAfee Mobile Research reported on fraudulent adult dating-service applications on Google Play that target Japanese users. Many other suspicious applications are spreading on Google Play in Japan, and try to lure users to similar fraudulent sites. These suspicious applications have appeared on Google Play since May. They offer adult or nonadult Read more…
Tags: Android security, Android/BadNews, Android/BadPush, fake ads, Google Play, online fraud, push notification
McAfee Mobile Research monitors adult one-click-fraud applications on Google Play that are targeted at Japanese users. Although the attackers appeared to have stopped uploading these apps in May, they have now resumed the attacks. We have confirmed about 600 malicious applications have been published since the beginning of April. We have also confirmed that another Read more…
Tags: adult dating service, Android security, Android/DeaiFraud, Google Play, online fraud
Last week McAfee Labs reported a series of “one-click fraud” malware on Google Play in Japan. We have been monitoring this fraudulent activity and have found more than 120 additional variants on Google Play since the previous report. The malicious developers upload five or six applications per account using three to five accounts every night, Read more…
Tags: Android security, Android/OneClickFraud, Google Play, one-click fraud, online safety
In what may be the biggest security-related incident on Google Play this year, multiple Trojans targeting Japanese users were discovered carrying the strain of Android one-click fraud. McAfee Mobile Research has already identified multiple developer accounts that were used to spread the malware and confirmed that more than 80 applications of this type existed on Read more…
Tags: Android security, Android/OneClickFraud, Google Play, one-click fraud, online safety
Are you guilty as charged? Whenever I bring this up in a group setting, it astonishes me how many people raise their hands. I wonder if they realize that they are putting all the personal information contained on their mobile device at risk. The unfortunate reality is that everyone loses things, and our devices can Read more…
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Mobile World Congress, or MWC to the veterans, has arrived once again. We’ve been busy preparing for this event for the past couple of months, and now that we’re here, we’re faced with sleep deprivation, increased caffeine intake, and indecision as to whether or not we’ll need a sweater in the confusing Barcelona climate. Nevertheless, Read more…
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Once you own a smartphone or tablet, you are not likely to give it up. But it is essential that you can understand where the risks are and steer around them as you enjoy your mobile digital life. With the growth in mobile exploding, it is only natural for cybercriminals to move towards that device Read more…
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Mobile computing is the new frontier of personal technology. Whether you are on a phone or tablet, if you have a carrier connection, you are mobile. Today, most of us can’t live without our mobile devices. We live in an always on, always connected world. While this is convenient in many ways, it also brings Read more…
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Apps are what make smartphones smart. Without apps, smartphones would just be regular feature phones. Apps are what make our smartphones into our most personal computers. And like our computers, we need to protect our smartphones and apps. Some of the most commonly used apps on the Android platform such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Gmail Read more…
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It’s funny to me that when having conversations about technology people still don’t see the parallel between their smartphone and their computer. Today, smartphone are connected to the Internet and have much of the same information as the personal computer, if not more. Now Androids and other smartphones have become little mini handheld computers. Carriers Read more…
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