Mobile Malware

AdultSwine’ Malicious Apps '

Check Point researchers revealed a new and nasty malicious code on Google Play Store that hides itself inside approximately 60 game apps, several of which are intended for use by children. According to Google Play’s data, the apps were downloaded between three million and seven million times. Dubbed ‘AdultSwine,’ the malicious apps wreaked havoc by displaying ads from the web that are often highly inappropriate and pornographic, attempting to trick users into installing fake ‘security apps’ and inducing users to register to premium services at the user’s expense 

Man in the Disk 

A shortcoming in the way Android apps use storage resources was discovered that could open the door to an attack resulting in any number of undesirable outcomes, such as silent installation of unrequested, potentially malicious, apps to the user’s phone. The hugely popular game, Fortnite, was found to be susceptible to such an attack and quickly patched a release for its users to install