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Watering Hole Attack on Kurdish Sites Distributing Malicious APKs and Spyware
2024-09-26 10:43

As many as 25 websites linked to the Kurdish minority have been compromised as part of a watering hole attack designed to harvest sensitive information for over a year and a half. French...

Telegram zero-day allowed sending malicious Android APKs as videos
2024-07-22 14:41

A Telegram for Android zero-day vulnerability dubbed 'EvilVideo' allowed attackers to send malicious Android APK payloads disguised as video files. A threat actor named 'Ancryno' first began selling the Telegram zero-day exploit on June 6, 2024, in a post on the Russian-speaking XSS hacking forum, stating the flaw existed in Telegram v10.14.4 and older.

Thousands of Android Malware Apps Using Stealthy APK Compression to Evade Detection
2023-08-19 06:28

Threat actors are using Android Package files with unknown or unsupported compression methods to elude malware analysis. "In order to do that, the APK, is using an unsupported decompression method."

Thousands of Android APKs use compression trick to thwart analysis
2023-08-17 14:51

Threat actors increasingly distribute malicious Android APKs that resist decompilation using unsupported, unknown, or heavily tweaked compression algorithms. Zimperium, a member of the 'App Defense Alliance' dedicated to identifying and eliminating malware from Google Play, analyzed the decompilation resistance landscape after a Joe Security tweet that showcased an APK that eludes analysis yet runs seamlessly on Android devices.

The possible reasons Google is moving away from APKs on Android
2021-07-01 16:01

Google has announced it is moving away from the APK format for Android apps. So when it was announced that Google was moving away from APKs on Android, in favor of Android Play Bundles, my mind went to one very particular place.

Fortnite APK Download for Android Won't Be Available on Google Play Store
2018-08-06 10:03

There's both good news and bad news for Fortnite game lovers. Fortnite, one of the most popular games in the world right now, is coming to Android devices very soon, but players would not be able...

Google Marks APKs Distributed by Google Play
2018-06-21 14:28

Google this week announced that it is adding a small amount of security metadata on top of APKs distributed by Google Play in order to verify their authenticity. read more

Epic Games Fortnite for Android–APK Downloads Leads to Malware
2018-06-18 13:03

Given Fortnite's current popularity and craziness across the globe, we understand if you have been searching the web for download links to Fortnite APK for Android phone. However, you are not...