businessinsider :Android malware spreads using Google AdSense advertising network: Kaspersky researchers

Android malware spreads using Google AdSense advertising network: Kaspersky researchers

Watch out, Android users: Security researchers have discovered a nasty new piece of smartphone malware that targets users of Google's mobile operating system — and it uses Google's popular advertising network AdSense to do it.It's a banking "trojan," which is designed to steal its victims' banking details.One way it does this is by creating phishing windows designed to dupe users into entering their details.

Google building operating system, Fuchsia, not based on Android

Google is working on a new operating system — and it has nothing to do with Android.A page has surfaced on the code-sharing website GitHub about the new OS, called — for now, at least — Fuchsia.It's not based on Android, the California-based technology company's mobile operating system used in billions of smartphones around the world, nor does it build upon the Linux kernel.

Google AdSense abused to distribute Android spyware • The Register

A banking trojan targeting Android users is spreading through malicious ads as part of an ongoing campaign.The scenario by which the malware spreads is all too familiar to long-suffering Windows fans, but may well come as an unpleasant shock to smartphone users.Worse yet, Android users can get infected by the Svpeng Trojan simply by visiting mainstream websites, as researchers from Kaspersky Lab explain:By simply viewing their favourite news sites over their morning coffee users can end up downloading last-browser-update.apk, a banking Trojan detected by Kaspersky Lab solutions as Trojan-Banker.AndroidOS.Svpeng.q.

​Scammers put a bogus Android security patch app in Google Play - CSO

Scammers put a fake Android security patch app in Google Play to infect smartphones.The bogus patch, packaged as an app, was briefly available in Google Play and purported to fix the so-called QuadRooter bugs that were revealed by security firm Check Point last week.QuadRooter consisted of four bugs that affect as many as 900 million Android smartphones with Qualcomm chips inside.