December 06, 2018

Sophisticated Android clickfraud apps pose as iPhone apps and devices

A collection of Android apps exhibit novel and innovative advertising fraud capabilities

SophosLabs UncutThreat Research

October 21, 2018

Fake Android banking apps target victims in India

Phishing attacks leveraged fake "banking" apps to steal bank card numbers from victims in India

MalwareProducts & ServicesSophosLabs UncutThreat Research

October 02, 2018

The price of a cheap mobile phone may include your privacy

Inexpensive mobile phones may be subject to "supply chain compromise," with Trojaned third party apps. We look at a phone that shipped with factory-installed malware

SophosLabs UncutThreat Research

July 23, 2018

Red Alert 2.0: Android Trojan targets security-seekers

A malicious, counterfeit version of a VPN client for mobile devices targets security-minded victims with a RAT.

MalwareSmartphonesSophosLabs Uncut

June 18, 2018

What makes a mobile threat researcher tick?

We interviewed Senior Threat Researcher, Rowland Yu, to find out...

Products & ServicesThreat Research

December 05, 2017

Sophos to explore Android threats at AVAR 2017 conference

Android malware is at the top of the agenda, including ways to combat it through machine learning

Threat Research

May 24, 2017

Police swoop on gang that planted banking Trojan on 1m phones

The Cron gang's malware was infecting some 3,500 Android devices every day - and siphoning money out of 60 accounts every day

Naked Security

May 09, 2017

Downloading Chrome for Android? Be careful – we’ve found an evil twin

Techniques used to poison a version of the Android Chrome browser with Andr/SandRat-C, Andr/Rootnik-AH are finding their way into other apps - and into the Play Store

Naked Security

February 14, 2017

RSA 2017: SophosLabs report examines Top 10 Android malware

Android malware is on the rise according to the findings of Sophos Labs. We look at the top 10 malware families for the platform

Naked Security