Inner workings revealed for “Predator,” the Android malware that exploited 5 0-days

Smartphone malware sold to governments around the world can surreptitiously record voice calls and nearby audio, collect data from apps such as Signal and WhatsApp, and hide apps or prevent them from running upon device reboots, researchers from Cisco’s Talos ...

Legit app in Google Play turns malicious and sends mic recordings every 15 minutes

Getty Images An app that had more than 50,000 downloads from Google Play surreptitiously recorded nearby audio every 15 minutes and sent it to the app developer, a researcher from security firm ESET said. The app, titled iRecorder Screen Recorder, ...

Google pushes .zip and .mov domains onto the Internet, and the Internet pushes back

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images A recent move by Google to populate the Internet with eight new top-level domains is prompting concerns that two of the additions could be a boon to online scammers who trick people into clicking on ...

It took 48 hours, but the mystery of the mass Asus router outage is solved

Enlarge / Detail of the ethernet ports on an Asus DSL-AC88U router, taken on November 30, 2017. (Photo by Olly Curtis/MacFormat Magazine/Future via Getty Images) On Wednesday, Asus router users around the world took to the Internet to report that ...

Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled

Enlarge / Cybercriminals or anonymous hackers use malware on mobile phones to hack personal and business passwords online. Getty Images Overall, Android devices have earned a decidedly mixed reputation for security. While the OS itself and Google’s Pixels have stood ...

Malware turns home routers into proxies for Chinese state-sponsored hackers

Researchers on Tuesday unveiled a major discovery—malicious firmware that can wrangle a wide range of residential and small office routers into a network that stealthily relays traffic to command and control servers maintained by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. A firmware implant, ...

Microsoft is scanning the inside of password-protected zip files for malware

Microsoft cloud services are scanning for malware by peeking inside users’ zip files, even when they’re protected by a password, several users reported on Mastodon on Monday. Compressing file contents into archived zip files has long been a tactic threat ...