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Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled

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Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers

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Android app from China executed 0-day exploit on millions of devices

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The undocumented Android change that led to aCropalypse was reported during beta

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Google says hackers could silently own your phone until Samsung fixes its modems

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Malvertising on Google Ads

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NPM repository flooded with 15,000 phishing packages

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Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software

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South Korea’s online security dead end

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Samsung’s Android app-signing key has leaked, is being used to sign malware

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New details on commercial spyware vendor Variston

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Google alerted Californians to an earthquake before it happened

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New Pegasus spyware abuses identified in Mexico

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Android 13’s new sideloading restriction of Accessibility APIs

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Botnet that hid for 18 months

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Leaked stolen Nvidia cert can sign Windows malware

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Indian threat actor Patchwork APT caught in its own web

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Pegasus vs. Predator

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We found a phone with pre-installed malware via the Lifeline Assistance program

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Malware found preinstalled in classic push-button phones sold in Russia

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Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Hooking Candiru: Another mercenary spyware vendor comes into focus

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Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates and blocks them

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Malicious NPM package opens backdoors on programmers' computers

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Twilio: Someone broke into our AWS S3 silo, added 'non-malicious' code to JS SDK

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New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy

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Modern Android is pretty secure

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New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears

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Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness

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Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years

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Weather.com Has Become the Pawn of a Data Theft Scheme

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Unremovable malware found preinstalled on low-end smartphone sold in the US

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New Vulnerabilities All Come Preinstalled on Android Phones

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Google, Xiaomi, and Huawei affected by zero-day flaw that unlocks root access

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SIM Vulnerability leads to information disclosure via malicious SMS

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Spam in Your Calendar? Here’s What to Do

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Android 10: Google Confirms 193 Security Vulnerabilities Need Fixing

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Kasper-Spy: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Puts Users at Risk

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Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode

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More on DataSpii: How extensions hide their grabs and how they’re discovered

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Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smith' malware

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Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says

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Plot to steal cryptocurrency foiled by NPM

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Office Depot computer scans gave fake results

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Hackers Hijacked Asus Software Updates to Install Backdoors

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Two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are frauds

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Pear.php.net shuts down after maintainers discover serious supply-chain attack

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Android Security Auditing: Investigating Unauthorized Screenshots

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Fortnite Android Installer allowed hackers to download and install anything

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Why the airplane romance that went viral should worry everyone

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Backdoored images downloaded 5M times removed from Docker Hub

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Guild Wars 2 distributed spyware in order to detect cheaters

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Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passwords

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A320-X DRM: What happened

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FlightSimLabs Alleged Malware Analysis

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Mobile Devices Compromised by Fake Secure Messaging Clients

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A Security Issue in Intel’s Active Management Technology

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OSX.Pirrit Mac Adware Part III: The DaVinci Code

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Devs unknowingly use “malicious” modules snuck into official Python repository

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The Judy Malware: Possibly the largest malware campaign found on Google Play

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Cloak and dagger – a new kind of attacks for Android

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Preinstalled Malware Targeting Mobile Users

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Black market Blackphones get sent a kill message that bricks them

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Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software

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More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan

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Android security in 2016 is a mess

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Microsoft Kills off ISVs by Foisting Its Own Products That Are No Better

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Malicious ZIP archives found in the AKP leak on the Wikileaks site

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“Turkey coup plotters' use of 'amateur' app helped unveil their network”

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Forced Windows 10 Upgrade Shuts Down PC Used by Anti-Poaching Rangers in Africa

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Viking Horde: A New Type of Android Malware on Google Play

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Medical Equipment Crashes During Heart Procedure Because of Antivirus Scan

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Nvidia GPUs can break Chrome's incognito mode

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Forbes asked readers to turn off adblockers then immediately served them malware

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Another Dell root certificate discovered

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Latest Android phones hijacked with one-shot Chrome exploit

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Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe browsing turned off

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Netflix Is Dumping Anti-Virus, Presages Death of an Industry

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Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text

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Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or the Reality

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Indian Programmer Exposes Code Injection, Gets a Cease and Desist from Injectors

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Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account

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Hola VPN Already Exploited by “Bad Guys”, Security Firm Says

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“I'm wiping this repository away”

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Lenovo: researchers find 'massive security risk'

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Newest version of uTorrent has Bitcoin mining offer during install

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Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless

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Firefox to get a “walled garden” for extensions, Mozilla to be sole arbiter

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Powerful, highly stealthy Linux trojan may have infected victims for years

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Google App Engine Java security sandbox bypasses

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NSA classifies Linux Journal readers as extremists

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Nokia 'paid millions to software blackmailers six years ago'

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Adobe wants Ninite to stop rolling out crapware-free Flash

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How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK

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ISP Advertisement Injection - CMA Communications

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Flame is Lame

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Researchers Connect Flame to Stuxnet

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Please do not take down the Sality botnet

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CNET Injecting Malware into Downloads

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CNet's Download.com now bundling Nmap with malware

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Possible Governmental Backdoor Found ("case R2D2")

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German Chaos Computer Club analyzes and releases government malware

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UTorrent.com compromised, malware added to installer

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99% of Android phones leak secret account credentials

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Confirmed: Samsung is not shipping keyloggers

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The Walled Garden Has Won

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The mother of all Android malware has arrived

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Best Buy Optimization Is A Big Stupid Annoying Waste Of Money

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Prioritizing software right to repair: engaging corporate response teams

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DJI – The ART of obfuscation

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Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking apps with no warning

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Dear Linux Kernel CNA, what have you done?

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Find My Device on Android

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Android 15 may make it harder for sideloaded apps to get sensitive permissions

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Android's theft protection features

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The Pumpkin Eclipse

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Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only

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Hackers Exploited a PC Driving SIM to Pull Off Disney Data Breach

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Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Threat actor abuses Cloudflare tunnels to deliver remote access trojans

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Pixel smartphones delivered with secret but inactive remote maintenance

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Unlocking the Pixel 9 bootloader breaks some Pixel AI apps

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