All depends on how you count it – Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate Google this week offered reassurance that its vetting of Chrome extensions catches most malicious code, even as it acknowledged that "as with any software, extensions can also introduce risk."…
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The Register
3 years, 1 month ago
This legit Android app turned into audio-snooping malware – and Google missed it
File-stealing nasty in my Play store? Preposterous!!1 Google Play has been caught with its cybersecurity pants down yet again after a once-legit Android screen-and-audio recorder app was updated to include malicious code.…
The Register
3 years, 8 months ago
Oh, look: More malware in the Google Play store
Also, US media hit with JavaScript supply chain attack, while half of govt employees use out-of-date mobile OSes in brief A quartet of malware-laden Android apps from a single developer have been caught with malicious code more than once, yet the infected apps remain on Google Play and have collectively been downloaded more than one million times. …
The Register
4 years, 1 month ago
Patch now: Zoom chat messages can infect PCs, Macs, phones with malware
Google Project Zero blows lid off bug involving that old chestnut: XML parsing Zoom has fixed a security flaw in its video-conferencing software that a miscreant could exploit with chat messages to potentially execute malicious code on a victim's device.…