Security News

Exploit Reseller Offering Up To $2.5 Million For Android Zero-Days
2019-09-04 08:48

Well, there's some good news for hackers and vulnerability hunters, though terrible news for Google, Android device manufacturers, and their billions of users worldwide. The zero-day buying and...

Zerodium Offers Up to $2.5 Million for Android Exploits
2019-09-04 04:30

Exploit acquisition firm Zerodium announced on Tuesday that it’s offering up to $2.5 million for powerful Android exploits, more than what it’s offering for the same type of exploit on iOS. read more

Fancy buying a compact and bijou cardboard box home in a San Francisco alley? This $2.5m Android bounty will get you nearly there
2019-09-04 00:22

Bug seller Zerodium boosts payouts for 'droid, slashes iOS prices in half Bug-broker Zerodium says it will cough up as much as $2.5m in exchange for techniques to silently and remotely hijack...

Kaspersky: Malware Found Hiding in Popular Android App
2019-09-03 17:33

CamScanner App Contained Dropper' Attack Code, Researchers SayResearchers at Kaspersky discovered malware hiding in advertising within a recent version of the popular CamScanner app for Android...

iPhone attack may have targeted Android and Windows too
2019-09-03 14:47

A sophisticated and sustained watering hole attack affecting iPhones may have targeted Windows and Android too.

Android RAT Exclusively Targets Brazil
2019-09-02 14:59

A newly discovered Android remote access Trojan (RAT) is specifically targeting users in Brazil, Kaspersky reports.

Nokia and Lenovo lead global survey on regularity of Android brand software and security updates
2019-08-30 16:45

As more people keep their smartphones for longer, the survey found that most companies are failing to update older versions.

Botnet targets set-top boxes using Android OS
2019-08-30 12:07

Production systems aren't supposed to have the ADB turned on, but some set-top boxes do.

Google will pay for data abuse reports related to popular Android apps, Chrome extensions
2019-08-30 08:46

Google is expanding the Google Play Security Reward Program (GPSRP) to include all apps in Google Play with 100 million or more installs, and is launching a new Developer Data Protection Reward...

Google takes little more responsibility for its Android world, will cough up bounties for mega-popular app bugs
2019-08-29 22:14

Payouts extended to anything with more than 100m installs Google is expanding its Android bug-bounty program to cover not just holes in the web giant's apps but also vulnerabilities in third-party...