Category: Mobile Security

Parasitic Android Malware – Loapi

Leila Sharma

A newly discovered Android Malware called Loapi, which has been dubbed the “jack of all trades” to emphasize its versatility, is among other things, a cryptocurrency miner of the digital currency Monero. Loapi is distributed through malicious third party applications and most often poses as fake antivirus software. Once installed, it attempts to take control […]

Gooligan/Googlian Android Malware steals Google credentials

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Researchers at Checkpoint, Inc. have found a family of malware which, when installed on vulnerable Android OS version 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean, and KitKat) and version 5 (Lollipop) gives the hacker full control of the device. Then it steals Google credentials to give the hackers access to all Google apps. The malware can […]