The Google Play Store is not the impregnable fortress that Google wants people to believe it is. Sometimes, malware slips through. Most of the security reports you'll read about malware making it on ...

Malwarebytes, a global leader in online protection, shared new research showcasing a dramatic uptick in threats targeting Android users as the mobile channel becomes a prime vector for financial scams ...

For the past year and a half, an Android adware family known as CopyCat has infected over 14 million devices, rooted around 8 million, and made over $1.5 million for its owners. The adware was capable ...

Eight apps containing Sockbot - a form of adware aimed at Android devices - were removed from the Google Play Store, but up to 2.6 million users could still be infected.The infiltrated apps were ...

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Researchers say that 14.8 percent of Android users who were targeted with mobile malware or adware last year were left with undeletable files. A healthy percentage of Android users targeted by mobile ...

Google Play has removed up to 50 apps that once downloaded plagued systems with full-screen ads. More than 50 malicious apps have been discovered on the Google Play app marketplace, peddling adware to ...

Google has recently removed 22 Android apps from the Play Store. The apps were removed for abusing Android devices to load and click on ads behind the users' backs. Also: Best Green Monday 2018 deals: ...

Google Android malware has been under the spotlight frequently over the last few weeks. Today is no different: Security researchers at Trend Micro have revealed that the Google Play Store hosted 85 ...

Security researchers have found a new kind of mobile adware hidden in hundreds of Android apps, and downloaded more than 150 million times from Google Play. The malware masquerading as an ad-serving ...