To keep your Android phone protected from adware, malware, spyware and other threats, you want to make sure that Google Play Protect is enabled. This pre-installed app scans any new apps you ...

Delete these apps now After discovering these adware apps on the Play Store, Dr. Web’s security researchers reached out to Google and they have all now been taken down. However, if any of them ...

Adware, in general, collects personal information from the device such as phone number, email address, application accounts, International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number of the device ...

Adware tracking cookies are a security threat to your computer. If you have an antivirus program on your computer, you might have noticed that these tracking cookies are flagged by antivirus.

Over the past 12 months, incidents of adware nearly tripled. And, overall in 2020 researchers saw a slight drop in the number of mobile cyberattacks, according to a report released Monday by ...

The adware in the tainted apps was specifically designed to undermine Android's MotionEvent mechanism. App developers use this to recognize movements like taps and multifinger gestures and gather ...

Adware can do more damage that just steal information and slow systems down, as if that wasn’t already enough. It can, for example, redirect you to websites you didn’t want to go to or didn’t expect, ...

Adware.Yontoo accounted for just over 3M infected business PCs. And while Trojans and other more serious forms of malware dominate the PC landscape, adware attacks are the fastest growing malware ...

ESET researchers found 42 apps containing adware, which they say have been downloaded more than 8 million times since they first debuted in July 2018. These apps look normal but act sneakily.

The adware functionality is the same in all the apps we analyzed. [Note: The analysis of the functionality below describes a single app, but applies to all apps of the Android/AdDisplay.Ashas family.] ...

According to ESET, these apps—a subset of which had been active on the Google Play Store since July of 2018—all appeared to be normal apps at first glance. Unlike previous adware-filled apps ...