How do fraudulent applications make it to the App Store? Sophos X-Ops researchers believe the scammers successfully bypassed strict App Store security protocols by connecting to a remote website with ...

Developers that do not incorporate receipt validation into their application risk their application being pirated, Sophos said on Friday. "Unfortunately, many of the applications in the App Store can ...

Operators of high-yielding investment scams known as "pig butchering" have found a way to bypass the defenses in Google Play and Apple's App Store, the official repositories for Android and iOS apps.

Recently, the security team at Sophos says they discovered CryptoRom apps that defeated Apple’s and Google’s app-store security review processes, making their way into the official stores. This type ...

British security company Sophos has discovered 15 adware apps on the Google Play Store. These sneaky apps were found to be generating frequent, large, and intrusive ads. They were also capable of ...

In the past year, a new term has arisen to describe an online scam raking in millions, if not billions, of dollars per year. It’s called “pig butchering,” and now even Apple is getting fooled into ...

WTF?! If you thought there's nothing worse than malware-infested apps, think again - several "fleeceware" apps on both Android and iOS are able to charge you significant amounts of money by using bait ...

Sophos researches have reported that 23 ‘fleeceware’ apps have been found in the Google Play Store. Those apps have tried to lure users to pay some crazy subscription fees. Some of you are probably ...

“Clueless CEO” Dave Malarky makes a special appearance at Sophos events. An event marketing strategy capitalizing on in-person experiences and humor is helping Sophos engage B2B prospects and ...

OXFORD, United Kingdom, Feb. 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today released new findings on CryptoRom scams—elaborate ...