News & Reviews:   malware

During this pandemic, MySejahtera app is one of the most-used apps on our mobile devices right now. But some places require us to use another QR scanner app for registration purpose. If you have this app called Barcode Scanner, you ought to delete it now.

Malware for mobile devices have been around for a while, but the one operating system targeted the most would be Android. More importantly, there's a new wave of malware that is flooding Android app stores recently. Specifically, variants of the malware family known as 'Joker'.

When it comes to an anti-virus program, Windows Defender is often shelved to the back replaced by more favourable anti-virus programs (Avast, Avira, and others). While that may sound like a sad situation, the team behind the program probably aren't affected at all and they are excited to showcase a public preview of Microsoft Defense ATP for Android phones.

Current happenings are often taken advantage of for various purposes but one of the latest is certainly deplorable. Reports of a new malware campaign have surfaced in Japan, using the current fear of the coronavirus to fool users into opening malware-infected email attachments.

Samsung tweeted a video on their Twitter account, recommending owners of Samsung Smart TVs to perform scans for viruses and malware especially for those that are connected to the internet via WiFi or even LAN cable. Unfortunately, we could not provide the video source due to the fact that has removed the tweet shortly after it was posted up.

Kaspersky Lab has introduced free ransomware decryptors for both businesses and individuals can use. To those of you unfamiliar, ransomware is a type of malware that takes over your files and holds them “hostage” until you pay a sum of money to have them released. This has actually happened to a large company in our own shores quite recently and Kaspersky has taken initiative to stop this from happening again with this decryptor.

You should check your account, as a new bug has made headlines with Android accounts across the world. Thanks to the Gooligan bug, several malicious apps have been downloaded by Android users allowing the malware inside them to wreak havoc with as many as 1.3 million Google accounts.