A version of the social media mobile app Facebook Lite, most likely available via third-party sites in China, was found infected with malware that can steal personal information, Malwarebytes reported on Monday.
The number of malicious installation packages found striking mobile devices more than tripled in 2016 resulting in almost 40 million attacks by malicious mobile malware during the year, according to Kaspersky Labs.
Researchers with Palo Alto Networks today reported finding 132 Android apps on Google Play whose HTML code was injected with hidden, malicious iframes, likely due to malware infecting a development platform used by the apps' creators.