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New FurBall Android Malware Used to Spy on Iranian Citizens

SecureWorld News

A new version of the Android malware "FurBall" has been discovered to be used by the threat actor(s) known as Domestic Kitten in a campaign targeting Iranian citizens in a mobile surveillance operation. The fake app was uploaded to VirusTotal, triggering an investigation from ESET, which detected the threat as Android/Spy.Agent.BWS.

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Google cites progress in Android security, but patching issues linger

Network World

The chances of you encountering malware on your Android phone is incredibly small, according to Google. percent of Android devices had installed a " potentially harmful application ," such as spyware, a Trojan, or other malicious software. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Security attacks and countermeasures

Cloud Musings

The resulting breaches occur primarily through malware, including Trojan horses, adware, worms, viruses and downloaders [6]. Malware is malicious software created for egregious objectives. Malware is malicious software created for egregious objectives. Most Active Malware Today.

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How To Stay Safe When Gaming Online

Galido

In this article we are going to talk about how to stay safe when gaming online. However, if we illegally pirate such software, there is a possibility that it contains a virus or spyware that will infect our computer. Install and update security software. This will prevent malware from affecting our files.

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How much control should Apple have over your iPhone?

Vox

You might be using an app to read this very article. Developers have accused Apple of “ Sherlocking ” their apps — that’s when Apple makes an app that’s strikingly similar to a successful third-party app and promotes it in the App Store or integrates it into device software in ways that outside developers can’t.

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Antitrust investigations aren’t the biggest threat to Facebook’s future

The Verge

And then Google made Chrome, and Microsoft just kept making Internet Explorer, and Microsoft made a series of really bad mobile phones, and Apple made a good one, and within a few years Microsoft was an enterprise software company with a video game console division and it was hard to remember what the whole fuss had been about in the first place.