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McAfee's Mobile Research Team discovered the malicious Android apps and reported them to Google as they violated Google Play Store's policies. McAfee's report says the adware was hidden in Google Play apps that impersonated the TV/DMB Player, Music Downloader, News, and Calendar applications.
It happens every once in a while when a story on your Google Discover news feed will mysteriously take you to Google's 404 page-despite the story being very much live at the time. Every now and then you may tap on a story served by Google Discover or Google News Showcase on an Android device.
Google is urging users to activate its Enhanced Safe Browsing feature via numerous alerts in Gmail that keep coming back, even after you acknowledge them. Enhanced Safe Browsing was released in 2007 as an upgrade to Google's standard Safe Browsing feature that warns users when they visit known phishing and malware sites.
The Google Cloud security team acknowledged a common tactic known as versioning used by malicious actors to slip malware on Android devices after evading the Google Play Store's review process and...
Google is making it easier for users to remove personal contact information and personal, non-consensual explicit imagery from Google search results. “Of course, removing content from Google...
Google will soon make it easier to remove your personally identifiable information and explicit images from search results right from Google Search or the Google app. The upgraded version will notify users if their personal information appears in Google Search results, allowing them to quickly remove it.
Threat actors are leveraging a technique called versioning to evade Google Play Store's malware detections and target Android users. Earlier this May, ESET discovered a screen recording app named "iRecorder - Screen Recorder" that remained innocuous for nearly a year after it was first uploaded to the Play Store before malicious changes were introduced sneakily to spy on its users.
Sophos released new findings on CryptoRom scams—a subset of pig butchering schemes designed to trick users of dating apps into making fake cryptocurrency investments. Since May, Sophos X-Ops has...
Recently, Google unveiled the creation of a dedicated AI red team. The AI red team closely observes both new adversarial research that is being published, as well as where Google is integrating AI into products.
Security researchers are warning of increased phishing activity that abuses Google Accelerated Mobile Pages to bypass email security measures and get to inboxes of enterprise employees. Google AMP is an open-source HTML framework co-developed by Google and 30 partners to make web content load faster on mobile devices.