Over the weekend, a new botnet has been discovered and it’s been targeting Android devices by scanning for debug ports that are open so it can infiltrate victims’ devices with a malware that mines the Monero cryto-currency. On Saturday, February 3, 2018, the botnet was first discovered and was targeting port 5555 which is the port used by the operating system’s native Android Debug Bridge or ADBL on devices that are running the Android OS. ADBL is a debugging interface that grants…
Android Oreo is starting to dominate the Android distribution just after Nougat surpasses Marshmallow. The rate of Android Oreo distribution has increased by .4% this 2018 and are expected to skyrocket in the new smartphone launches, including the launch of Samsung Galaxy S9 this February 25, 2018, in Brazil. According to Google Statistics, smartphone developers who install Oreo and Nougat has a noticeable rise in numbers, while older versions of Android is already decreasing. Aside from…
Samsung announces that the launching of Galaxy S9 is will be held in Barcelona this coming February 25, 2018, with the tagline “The Camera. Reimagined.” Even though Samsung has not yet fully revealed the new Galaxy’s features and specifications, leaks and speculations have already flooded the internet on what to expect from the most anticipated smartphone brand. Here are some unconfirmed, but highly probable, specifications of Galaxy S9 and S9+. Galaxy S9 Highlights As…
The removal of over 700,000 malicious apps from the Google Play Store in 2017 was led by Google’s various safeguards that are designed to prevent malicious apps from reaching Android users. Google’s Product Manager, Andrew Ahn, stated in a blog post, “Not only did we remove more bad apps, we were able to identify and action against them earlier. In fact, 99% of apps with abusive contents were identified and rejected before anyone could install them. This was possible through significant…
On Tuesday, the chipset giant, MediaTek stated that they are working with Reliance Jio and Google to launch Android Go smartphone although they haven’t disclosed when the release date of the smartphone would be. This competitive chipset giant was one of the first players to offer the Android Go compatibility. And now with its collaboration with both Reliance Jio and Google, it would certainly make way for an even better and enhanced entry-level 4G VoLTE smartphones. Its MT6381 will be…
Although Windows tablet is known for its productivity, there is still no denying the fact that there’s a gap when it comes to software that is designed to be used compared to mobile apps like banking apps or airline and airport apps and even parking apps. It would be better to fall back on Android apps if possible in such cases. That’s where Chuwi, a Chinese tablet manufacturer came to the picture. Chuwi has just launched a new tabled called “Hi8 Air. This new table is a dual-boot…
An Android app component designed to provide inter-user chatting capabilities was found to be opening websites and clicking on ads in Android devices’ background. This malicious component, according to a report released last week, is part of a software development kit or SDK offered by a Chinese company is known as呀呀云 (Ya Ya Yun). A lot of Android app developers use the software development kit of Ya Ya Yun in adding an instant messaging feature to the games that they create. Meaning…
As we all know, a mobile data connection is sometimes, if not often, not reliable so of course, it just won’t simply do for users who constantly want to stay connected to the internet and that’s where Wi-Fi hotspot comes in. However, not all public Wi-Fi are created equal. To remedy that, there’s a new feature in Android 8.1 that tells users about a Wi-Fi network before they go over the hassle of connecting to it. Users won’t exactly get the exact information about the network’s speed…
Google just got rid of a total of 63 apps from the official Play Store recently as they were discovered to be infected with a new kind of Android malware dubbed as “GhostTeam” which has the ability to steal Facebook credentials as well as bombard users with a bunch of ads on their infected devices. This new Android malware was discovered by security teams of Trend Micro and Avast. According to the researchers, the malware has long been active in the Google Play Store but was just…
A new Android malware discovered by a cybersecurity firm has been discovered. According to the cybersecurity firms, this Android malware is the very first Android malware family developed using the Kotlin programming language. Kotlin is an open source programming language for modern multiplatform applications. Way back in May 2017, Google stated that Kotlin is a first-class programming language for writing Android apps. And since its release, 17% of Android Studio projects had started using…
