Being the most widely used mobile operating system on the planet, Android can be found on a large variety of devices and services, and offers hundreds of thousands of available customized apps to enhance the functionality of your device. Unfortunately, Android also accounts for a whopping 79% of mobile malware cases reported by the US Read more…
8 月といえば、世界中の多くの人々が仕事の手をいったん休め、休暇を過ごす時期でしょう。しかし、日本でワンクリック詐欺アプリを開発している詐欺師たちにとっては、8 月こそが繁忙期だったようです。この月、詐欺師たちは生産性を大きく伸ばし、1,000 個近くの詐欺アプリを Google Play に公開しました。Google Play に表示されている統計データによると、騙されてしまった Android デバイスユーザーが、詐欺アプリを少なくとも累計 8,500 回ダウンロードしています。実際の数字はおそらくそれよりもはるかに多く、10,000 回以上ダウンロードされているものと思われます。
Revision Note: V15.0 (September 10, 2013): Added the 2880289 update to the Current Update section.
Summary: Microsoft is aware of vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer on all supported editions of Windows 8…
For many of us around the globe, August may be a month to take a bit of a break from work and go on a summer holiday. In contrast, August appears to the busiest month of the year for the scammers developing Japanese one-click fraud apps. They have incr…
During our routine patrols of popular marketplaces offering Android applications we recently came across some suspicious applications hosted on the popular Google Play. The applications are distributed as hacking tools, utility tools, and pornographic apps by different developers. Here are images for a few of them: Suspicious applications on Google Play. These apps seem to Read more…
Contributor: Binny Kuriakose
Spammers continue to leverage the crisis in Syria for their personal gain. Besides taking advantage of a scam message that claimed to be from The Red Cross, spammers are now taking advantage of emails about the news in Syri…
They say popularity has its price. This saying holds a new weight when it comes to the growing influence of social media. In fact, your “Likes” may be worth more to hackers than your credit card number. As counterintuitive as it may seem, your social clout has become the new target of hackers. And they’re Read more…
A recent ruling by the New Jersey Court of Appeals has sparked a nationwide debate over exactly who is liable when an accident is caused by a distracted driver. According national reports, the court considered the claim of two victims who both lost their legs when a texting teen driver ran into their motorcycle. While Read more…
The AVAST #SecurityTip contest has begun, and everyone is invited to participate. It’s easy! Just write a security tip that we can share with other computer and mobile users and you’ll get the chance to win a Nexus device or a free 1-year license for avast! Internet Security! Each week in September, we will ask […]