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In what appears to be a fresh twist in Android malware, users of Gigaset mobile devices are encountering unwanted apps that are being downloaded and installed through a pre-installed system update app. "The culprit installing these malware apps is the Update app, package name com.redstone.ota.ui, which is a pre-installed system app," Malwarebytes researcher Nathan Collier said.

Roid smartphones from Gigaset have been infected by malware direct from the manufacturer in what appears to be a supply-chain attack. The Trojan, once downloaded and installed on a victim's device via a poisoned software update from the vendor, is capable of opening browser windows, fetching more malicious apps, and sending people text messages to further spread the malware, say researchers and users.

Owners of Gigaset Android phones have been repeatedly infected with malware since the end of March after threat actors compromised the vendor's update server in a supply-chain attack. Gigaset is a German manufacturer of telecommunications devices, including a series of smartphones running the Android operating system.

Researchers have discovered new Android malware that uses Netflix as its lure and spreads malware via auto-replies to received WhatsApp messages. The discovery was reported to Google, and the malware - dubbed FlixOnline - has been removed from Google Play; but the researchers expect the methodology to return and be reused in other malware.

The April 2021 Android security bulletin published this week by Google describes more than 30 vulnerabilities in the mobile operating system, including a remote code execution flaw in the System component. Tracked as CVE-2021-0430 and affecting Android 10 and 11, the code execution vulnerability is deemed critical severity.

Newly discovered Android malware found on Google's Play Store disguised as a Netflix tool is designed to auto-spread to other devices using WhatsApp auto-replies to incoming messages. Researchers at Check Point Research discovered this new malware disguised as an app named FlixOnline and trying to lure potential victims with promises of free access to Netflix content.

Google on Tuesday announced that its open source version of the Android operating system will add support for Rust programming language in a bid to prevent memory safety bugs. "The Android OS uses Java extensively, effectively protecting large portions of the Android platform from memory bugs. Unfortunately, for the lower layers of the OS, Java and Kotlin are not an option."

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered yet another piece of wormable Android malware-but this time downloadable directly from the official Google Play Store-that's capable of propagating via WhatsApp messages. Disguised as a rogue Netflix app under the name of "FlixOnline," the malware comes with features that allow it to automatically reply to a victim's incoming WhatsApp messages with a payload received from a command-and-control server.

Microsoft's digital assistant Cortana was first unveiled with Windows Phones, and it was later introduced on Android and iOS. Microsoft had even offered Cortana in its Microsoft Launcher, but they decided to remove all the consumer-centric integrations after focusing instead on enterprise customers. Due to this, Microsoft Cortana for Android and iOS never took off with mobile users.

There are still way way to many people not listening and whilst they think they msy never come to harm They forget their behaviours result in harm comming to others. So if you can stand there with the plaintext in front of you then so can somebody else who is not someone you can trust now or in the future even if they have been trustworthy in the past.