The Hacker News - Cybersecurity News and Analysis: adware

First of all, if you have any of the below-listed apps installed on your Android device, you are advised to uninstall it immediately. C...

Are you sure the WhatsApp app you are using on your Android device is legitimate, even if it's working perfectly as intended? ...Or...

Google has removed 85 apps from its Play Store after finding out that they were pushing aggressive, full-screen adware to Android users. ...

A highly popular top-tier app in Apple's Mac App Store that's designed to protect its users from adware and malware threats has ...

Security researchers have been warning of a few newly detected variants of python -based adware that are being distributed in the wild no...

Security researchers have discovered a massive continuously growing malware campaign that has already infected nearly 5 million mobile de...

If you came across any Facebook message with a video link sent by anyone, even your friend — just don't click on it. Security researche...

Over 500 different Android apps that have been downloaded more than 100 million times from the official Google Play Store found to be inf...

From past few years, spammers and cyber criminals were buying web extensions from their developers and then updating them without informi...

Phishers have recently hacked an extension for Google Chrome after compromising the Chrome Web Store account of German developer team a9t...

Chinese authorities have recently initiated a crackdown on the operators of a massive adware campaign that infected around 250 Million co...

Security researchers have discovered a massive malware campaign that has already infected more than 250 million computers across the worl...

Security researchers have claimed to have discovered possibly the largest malware campaign on Google Play Store that has already infected...

If the death of online privacy rules wasn't enough for Internet Service Providers and advertisers to celebrate, Verizon has planned t...

Security researchers have uncovered a new piece of Adware that replaces your entire browser with a dangerous copy of Google Chrome , in...

Google Android has been a primary concern of the attackers. Counting from a simple text message that could hack an Android phone remotel...

In the War against Ad injectors , Google has started removing ad-injecting extensions for its Chrome browser after it discovered as many...

One of the most popular computer manufacturers Lenovo is being criticized for selling laptops pre-installed with invasive marketing soft...