Malicious Android apps on Google Play downloaded 42 million times
Hundreds of malicious Android apps on Google Play were downloaded more than 40 million times between June 2024 and May 2025, notes a report from cloud security company Zscaler. [...]
Zscaler is a cloud security platform that brokers access to applications and internet services, making its controls and flaws relevant to enterprise risk.
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Zscaler is a cloud-delivered security platform that routes users’ web, SaaS, and private-application traffic through policy enforcement points rather than relying solely on an enterprise network perimeter. Its functions can include a secure web gateway, cloud firewall, malware and phishing inspection, data-loss controls, and zero-trust access, which grants access to specific applications based on identity and device context instead of broad network connectivity.
Security coverage depends on correct identity policies, traffic steering, endpoint agents, application connectors, and integrations with directories and security tools. Vulnerabilities or misconfigurations in those components can expose internal applications, bypass inspection, or disrupt access; compromise of an administrative account or control plane could also change policies broadly. HTTPS inspection requires installed trust certificates and creates material privacy and compliance considerations, so organizations should limit decryption, protect logs, and define retention. Advisories under this tag may therefore concern the cloud service, client software, connectors, APIs, or dependent identity systems, and should be assessed alongside configuration review and access-control monitoring.
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Hundreds of malicious Android apps on Google Play were downloaded more than 40 million times between June 2024 and May 2025, notes a report from cloud security company Zscaler. [...]
Cybersecurity company Zscaler warns it suffered a data breach after threat actors gained access to its Salesforce instance and stole customer information, including the contents of support cases. [...]
A Fortune 50 company paid a record-breaking $75 million ransom payment to the Dark Angels ransomware gang, according to a report by Zscaler ThreatLabz. [...]
Zscaler says that they discovered an exposed "test environment" that was taken offline for analysis after rumors circulated that a threat actor was selling access to the company's systems. [...]
Zscaler says that today's rumors it was breached are false after a threat actor claimed to be selling access to one of the "largest cyber security companies." [...]
A Zscaler service outage is causing loss of connectivity, packet loss, and latency for customers, with no information available as to what is causing the disruption. [...]