Google purged 1.7K malicious ‘Joker’ apps from the Play Store

Jan10
by on January 10, 2020 at 3:02 pm
Posted In: Apps


No, we’re not talking about the movie. Google has removed 1,700 instances of family of billing fraud malware dubbed Bread, but also known as Joker. The best bit? These Big G says the apps were nixed before users could even download them. The bad news? They still made their way to the Play Store. What’s special about the Bread malware, which Google has been tracking since 2017, is it continued to evolve along with the Play Store’s defensive mechanisms. “Bread apps were forced to continually iterate to search for gaps,” write researchers Alec Guertin and Vadim Kotov. “They have at some…

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Smart locks are cool as fuck — but I’ll never trust them

Jan09
by on January 9, 2020 at 3:05 pm
Posted In: Plugged


I’m pretty trusting when it comes to technology. I’ve shrugged at putting Google Assistant in my house. I’ve walked around wearing an array of smartwatches without a single care in the world. Hell, I’m laissez-faire enough that I’ve done one of those genetic tests that (probably) shares DNA with every law enforcement agency in the world. I didn’t do these things because I don’t give a fuck about privacy. Far from it. The rationale is simpler that that: I just love technology. I adore trying out things that can make my life better, slicker, or just plain cooler. But I’ve…

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