Our mobile threat intelligence platform flagged three beauty apps that have ugly consequences. Over 2 million devices have downloaded these apps. In February 2019, Avast’s mobile threat intelligence platform (MTIP), apklab.io, discovered a number of “selfie beauty apps” on the Google...
Will Coinhive’s end lead to the end of browser-based cryptomining and cryptojacking? Cryptojacking stole the limelight away from ransomware at the end of 2017, becoming a major cyberthreat that continued into 2018. On March 8, 2019 Coinhive, the service that enables websites around the...
Fake CCleaner app loaded with adware Recently, Avast has discovered that a new fake mobile CCleaner app has been published in the China Baidu App Store (百度手机助手) and it’s specified as Certified Official Version (官方版). This caught our eye because Avast hasn’t published any official versions...