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Several malicious Google Play Android apps installed over 2 million times push intrusive ads to users while concealing their presence on the infected devices. Dr. Web explains that once victims install these apps on their devices, they hide by replacing their icons with that of Google Chrome or using a transparent icon image to create empty space in the app drawer.
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Google is getting ready to test a new "IP Protection" feature for the Chrome browser that enhances users' privacy by masking their IP addresses using proxy servers. [...]
Details have emerged about a malvertising campaign that leverages Google Ads to direct users searching for popular software to fictitious landing pages and distribute next-stage payloads....
A Google Ads campaign was found pushing a fake KeePass download site that used Punycode to appear as the official domain of the KeePass password manager to distribute malware. Even worse, Google Ads can be abused to show the legitimate domain for Keepass in the advertisements, making the threat hard to spot even for more diligent and security-conscious users.
Google has announced an update to its Play Protect with support for real-time scanning at the code level to tackle novel malicious apps prior to downloading and installing them on Android devices....
Google is enhancing Google Play Protect's real-time scanning to include code-level scanning, to keep Android devices safe from malicious and unwanted apps, especially those downloaded from outside of the Google Play app store - whether from third-party app stores or other sources. Google Play Protect, introduced by Google in 2017, is a security suite for Android devices that protects users' devices and data from malicious apps.
Users using Google to search for and download the KeePass password manager and the Notepad++ text editor may have inadvertently gotten saddled with malware, says Jérôme Segura, Director of Threat Intelligence at Malwarebytes. Malware peddlers have a number of clever tricks up their sleeve to make the malicious ads and the sites they lead to look legitimate.
A number of state-back threat actors from Russia and China have been observed exploiting a recent security flaw in the WinRAR archiver tool for Windows as part of their operations. The...
Google has announced new, real-time scanning features for Google Play Protect that make it harder for malicious apps employing polymorphism to evade detection. The problem is that authors of malicious apps promoted outside Google Play have resorted to AI and polymorphic malware that frequently alters identifiable information in a malicious program to bypass automated security platforms, making those scans ineffective.