Yesterday was Apple's turn, today it's Android:
Cloud security vendor Zscaler says customers of Google’s Play Store have downloaded more than 19 million instances of malware-laden apps that evaded the web giant’s security scans.
Zscaler’s ThreatLabz spotted and reported 77 apps containing malware, many of them purporting to be utilities or personalization tools.
Sneer all you want at Apple, they take security for iOS much more seriously than Google does for Android.
Zscaler noted that the software requires users to grant it elevated permissions before it can cause harm, but attackers are hiding it in legitimate-seeming apps to fool users, and the technique is obviously working.
Probably the best thing you can do is refuse permissions for new apps. Heck, I don't even let most apps have access to location data.
And quite frankly, I don't have many apps installed. That's probably the best way you can deal with this sort of nonsense.
4 comments:
It's not enough to identify the malware tidal wave that's out there. How come Apple and Google aren't working on a way to stop it? If the "black hats" are smart enough to figure out the weaknesses, why aren't the "white hats" smart enough to identify the problems BEFORE they become catastrophic?
My bet is that the tools Google and Apple are using to catch malware are from companies headquartered in a "Five Eyes" "Nine Eyes" "Fourteen Eyes" country, and that such software has backdoors which are known by the "alleged" bad guys.
You search for an app by name and their own algorithms show paid ads first and not the actual app you might be looking for...
BP what phone should I be on? I’ve always used Apple phones and never really had a problem with them…or, at least, one that I have been aware of…
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