Spyhide stalkerware is spying on tens of thousands of phones

 Image Credits: TechCrunchAphone surveillance app called Spyhide is stealthily collecting private phone data from tens of thousands of Android devices around the world, new data shows.Spyhide is a widely-used stalkerware (or spouseware) app that is planted on a victim’s phone, often by someone with knowledge of their passcode. The app is designed to stay hidden on a victim’s phone’s home screen, making it difficult to detect and remove. Once planted, Spyhide silently and continually uploads the phone’s contacts, messages, photos, call logs and recordings, and granular location in real-time.Despite their stealth and broad access to a victim’s phone data, stalkerware apps are notoriously buggy and are known to spill,...

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Fake Android apps uploaded to Play store by notorious Sandworm hackers

The Russian ‘Sandworm’ hacking group (not to be confused with the malware of the same name) has been caught repeatedly uploading fake and modified Android apps to Google’s Play store. They were detected by Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG), making the attacks public during a presentation at the recent CyberwarCon conference. In a blog on the topic this week, Google says the first attack connected to the group happened in South Korea in December 2017 when the group used bogus developer accounts to upload eight different apps to the Play Store. On the face of it, the campaign was unsuccessful, garnering fewer than 10 installs per app, but it’s likely that the targets were highly selective. That came after an attack in September 2017, when TAG detected that Sandworm hackers...

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How to scan router for malware

Consumer router security is pretty bad. Attackers are taking advantage of lackadaisical manufacturers and attacking large amounts of routers. Here’s how to check if your router’s been compromised. The home router market is a lot like the Android smartphone market. Manufacturers are producing large numbers of different devices and not bothering updating them, leaving them open to attack. How to Increase Battery Life Volume 0%   How Your Router Can Join the Dark Side RELATED: What Is DNS, and Should I Use Another DNS Server? Attackers often seek to change the DNS server setting on your router, pointing it at a malicious DNS...

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Among smartphones, Android devices are the most commonly targeted by malware, finds report

(Last Updated On: December 7, 2018) According to the latest Nokia Threat Intelligence Report 2019, Android devices are the most commonly targeted by malware. In mobile networks, Android devices were responsible for 47.15% of the observed malware infections, Windows©/ PCs for 35.82%, IoT for 16.17% and Apple’s iPhones for less than 1%. Malware, Device breakdown 2018, source Nokia Threat Intelligence Report 2019 In the smartphone sector, the vast majority of malware is currently distributed as trojanized applications. The user is tricked by phishing, advertising or other social engineering into downloading and installing the application. The main reason that the Android platform is targeted, is the fact that once side-loading...

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