In the new 2020 release of its annual Threat Landscape Report, Avast predicts criminals will innovate malicious emails by harnessing sophisticated tools; the mobile industry will be hit by more subscription scams; and IoT data will be a major target. A…
A bunch of coworkers on Skype chat about the good old days, how much money they make now, and sagging morale. “I am getting demotivated, and do not want to do anything,” one tells the group.
Avast researchers have found that Android flashlight applications request an average of 25 permissions to access data or features on mobile devices, potentially exposing users in unnecessary ways.
Avast researchers have discovered serious security vulnerabilities in some 600,000 child trackers for sale on Amazon.com and other large online merchants. The devices expose data sent to the cloud, including the exact real-time GPS coordinates of child…
Avast researchers have worked with French and U.S. law enforcement to stop 850,000 infections by a “worm” – or malware that replicates – by causing the threat to destroy itself.
Creating malware that is capable of making money takes little to no ability to write original computer code, recent research by Avast has shown. All that’s needed is the ability to bundle existing tools together using publicly available snippets of cod…
Avast researchers announced this week that the company has protected more than 253,000 users from Clipsa, a password stealer that steals administrator credentials from unsecured WordPress websites.
Avast has protected nearly 27,000 users since the beginning of this year from Guildma, malware that is attacking 130 banks and 75 other web services, such as Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, and Google Mail, around the world.
Mobile threat researchers at Avast have detected seven apps on the Google Play Store that were all likely designed by a Russian developer to allow people to stalk employees, romantic partners, or kids.
Avast’s head of mobile threats is warning Android customers that an app claiming to identify who owns phone numbers appears to be a subscription scam.