Fraudulent Android apps offers illegal data retrieval service to millions of users
28 fraudulent apps not only bypassed detection on the official app platform — they even charged subscriptions for a fake illegal service.
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By CybersecAsia editors | Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 2:01 PM Asia/Singapore | News
28 fraudulent apps not only bypassed detection on the official app platform — they even charged subscriptions for a fake illegal service.
Read MoreBy CybersecAsia editors | Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 2:31 PM Asia/Singapore | News, Newsletter
Researchers find an evolving RAT trojan distributing polymorphic Android payloads via trusted infrastructure, abusing permissions to harvest credentials.
Read MoreBy CybersecAsia editors | Thursday, October 30, 2025, 2:34 PM Asia/Singapore | News, Newsletter
The malware has been used in device takeover attacks in Italy and Brazil, and also for spoofing banking and crypto phishing.
Read MoreBy CybersecAsia editors | Tuesday, September 2, 2025, 3:06 PM Asia/Singapore | Newsletter, Opinions
Come September 2026, Android users in Singapore, Brazil, Indonesia and Thailand will find it harder to download apps from outside the Play Store. What would that mean for app developers, cybersecurity and consumer experience?
Read MoreBy CybersecAsia editors | Monday, September 1, 2025, 3:20 PM Asia/Singapore | News, Newsletter
Why pay thousands when you can get Premium crypto-trading service for a full year at no cost?
Read MoreBy CybersecAsia editors | Monday, March 24, 2025, 5:57 PM Asia/Singapore | News, Newsletter
In yet another debacle from a supposedly safe official app store, over 300 malicious apps have slipped through
Read MoreBy CybersecAsia editors | Tuesday, October 1, 2024, 12:06 PM Asia/Singapore | News, Newsletter
Being the first malware targeting crypto users on the Android platform, the malicious app also evaded security checks for months
Read MoreBy L L Seow | Thursday, June 27, 2024, 1:45 PM Asia/Singapore | Newsletter, Tips
With more phone manufacturers extending the Android update support period to four versions, more users will need the following tips…
Read MoreBy CybersecAsia editors | Friday, April 19, 2024, 5:20 PM Asia/Singapore | News, Newsletter
Cybercriminals have been modifying open source remote access trojans (RATs) for embedding into seemingly legitimate apps to infiltrate “trusted” app stores
Read MoreBy PR Newswire | Thursday, November 2, 2023, 10:30 PM Asia/Singapore | PR Newswire
42Gears SureMDM offers advanced security and management features to support Android Enterprise customers BANGALORE, India, Nov. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — 42Gears today announced that SureMDM has been validated as an official...
Read MoreBy CybersecAsia editors | Friday, June 23, 2023, 5:07 PM Asia/Singapore | News, Newsletter
Usually downloaded outside of official Android app stores, the malware apps can saddle victims with premium-SMS charges and data leak problems.
Read MoreBy CybersecAsia editors and webmaster webmaster | Friday, August 12, 2022, 1:59 PM Asia/Singapore | Cyberthreat Landscape, News
Google (which controls the development of Android) has also garnered much privacy-restriction interest, according to one cybersecurity firm’s own data
Read MoreBy CybersecAsia editors and webmaster webmaster | Thursday, December 2, 2021, 12:02 PM Asia/Singapore | Cyberthreat Landscape, News, Newsletter
Shared code and tell-tale Arabic text strings helped to ease the detective work.
Read MoreBy CybersecAsia editors and webmaster webmaster | Monday, November 15, 2021, 9:42 AM Asia/Singapore | News, Newsletter
Such app stores are not as safe as we are led to believe. Time to brush up on mobile cyber hygiene!
Read MoreBy CybersecAsia editors and webmaster webmaster | Thursday, September 9, 2021, 1:40 PM Asia/Singapore | News, Newsletter
The concept of using RAT apps to pull off such attacks could be used to target any group of people.
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