Can Hackers Take A Bite Out Of Your Mobile Pay Solution?

With the many digital payment options available today, finding the most secure providers can be a challenge. The popularity of digital wallets has grown over time and writing checks and even using plastic cards for payments are quickly becoming the dinosaurs of our non-digital past. Many users now own mobile wallets and pay for goods and services. And using Apple Pay, Google Pay or another service for those transactions may offer peace of mind knowing your payment data is safe and out of the reach of hackers. READ FULL STORY

The Most Hacked Apps To Get To Your Details

We share a lot these days. Some might even say we spout personal details like a water from a fire hydrant, especially when it comes to social media. For hackers, that means they have us all right where they want us. Researchers at TechShielder put in some work and found that there are a number of apps available to us that actually have been repeatedly compromised and share our personal information with plenty of others that we may not want to have our information. READ FULL STORY

One Billion+ Android App Downloads Are Hiding Banking Trojans. Is One Yours?

With over one billion trojan banking malware downloads from 639 apps on Google Play Store, it’s time for mobile Android users to pay attention. After all, it’s ultimately the victims who end up paying the price for Google not finding the malware before making it available on their Play Store. Despite Google’s recently improved efforts to keep malware out of their App Store, like introducing Play Protect, it appears there’s a lot more work to be done. READ FULL STORY

More Pop-Up Ads? Yes Please! Said No One. Ever!

Those intrusive pop-up ads that slow down our browsers and bounce the content we want to read are by most accounts, insufferable. Knowing that, developers have created ad blocker extensions to help with this annoying and potentially harmful web surfing issue. One self-proclaimed ad-blocking extension, AllBlock Chromium, however, is doing the exact opposite of what it says it does and those behind it are making profits off that broken promise. READ FULL STORY

BlackCat Brings Bad Luck Using Google Ads

Trend Micro researchers recently identified that a notorious ransomware group is using various malvertising tricks within Google Ads to distribute fake WinSCP installers. They are using Targeted Attack Detection (TAD) service. What is that, you say? This means that if you click on an infected ad that you see on your webpage, your network could get a bad case of cat scratch fever. Threat actors are taking advantage of Google Ads to launch malvertising campaigns. READ FULL STORY