Sting once sang, “Every breath you take, every move you make, I’ll be watching you.” Little did the artist know that he’d just created a mission statement for spyware, programs that infect tech ...

The security researchers at Lookout recently discovered Russia’s Gamaredon Group using two Android spyware families, BoneSpy and PlainGnome, for spying and data theft purposes. These are the first ...

Malicious apps popping up in the Google Play store for Android devices aren't a new problem. The latest of these came to light just this week courtesy of a Lab52 report on a newly-discovered threat ...

Mobile spyware has been reported numerous times in the media as a serious threat for phone users. When we first covered the spyware issue back in March, 2012, we were shocked by the volume of comments ...

A set of seemingly innocuous Android apps have been infecting Israeli users with spyware since 2018, and the campaign continues to this day. The spyware-laden apps were discovered by researchers at ...

Google has warned of an enterprise-grade spyware strain targeting Android and iOS mobile device users. According to Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers Benoit Sevens and Clement Lecigne, as ...

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UPDATE: Google’s spokesperson reached out with a statement. The company has confirmed “that users are automatically protected from known versions of this spyware by Google Play Protect, which is on by ...