Researchers have proven that sensors in wearable electronics can be exploited to measure minute movements in users' arms in an effort to decipher keystrokes and PIN codes that they enter into computers and ATMs.
Google releases Android security bulletin, providing updates for 89 critical and high severity vulnerabilities affecting software and hardware components including Mediaserver, OpenSSL, BoringSSL, Bluetooth, Qualcomm, and numerous drivers.
A criminal division of an otherwise legitimate Chinese tech company is behind a mobile malware distribution campaign that currently generates around $300,000 a month, according to a Check Point threat analysis.
Google will include a new defensive measure in its upcoming Android 7.0, or Nougat, operating system that will block ransomware designed to lock the device's display.
A security researcher looks to have discovered an Achilles heel in the way millions of Android phones execute encryption, leaving these mobile devices potentially vulnerable to advanced hacking techniques.
The actors behind a series of ongoing SMS phishing scams targeting Europe-based Android users have intensified their campaigns and significantly upgraded the credentials-stealing malware that's been infecting their victims.
The amount of mobile ransomware being pushed has more than doubled over the last two years as the mainly Russian cybergangs behind attacks have focused efforts on more lucrative targets in Germany, Canada and the U.K.
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