Tag: app

Games, apps, websites… anything can be abused. How to protect your family from mobile threats

November 5, 2024

ESET levels up its Mobile Security app to be even more effective against phishing. Smartphones have become an integral part of our social lives. From children to teens and on to adults and the elderly, globally, the average user now spends almost four hours daily staring at their mobile phone. There’s really no point in naming all … More Games, apps, websites… anything can be abused. How to protect your family from mobile threats

Macron’s bodyguards reveal his location by sharing Strava data

October 31, 2024

Members of the Security Group for the Presidency of the Republic (GSPR), who protect President Emmanuel Macron, have been inadvertently sharing their locations via the fitness app Strava. This has made it possible to track Macron’s movements, according to an investigation by Le Monde*, as his bodyguards’ workout sessions were publicly visible. The issue highlights … More Macron’s bodyguards reveal his location by sharing Strava data

ESET Research: Arid Viper group targets Middle East, poisons Palestinian app with spyware

June 13, 2024

ESET researchers have identified five campaigns that employ trojanised apps to target Android users. Most likely carried out by the Arid Viper APT group, these campaigns started in 2022, and three of them are still ongoing at the time of publication of this press release. They deploy multistage Android spyware, which ESET has named AridSpy, … More ESET Research: Arid Viper group targets Middle East, poisons Palestinian app with spyware

ESET Research discovers espionage apps utilizing romance scams

February 1, 2024

ESET Research discovered a new cyberespionage campaign that, with a high level of confidence, ESET attributes to the Patchwork APT group. ESET researchers have identified 12 Android espionage apps that share the same malicious code; six were available on Google Play. All the observed applications were advertised as messaging tools, apart from one that posed … More ESET Research discovers espionage apps utilizing romance scams

Strava heatmap feature can be abused to find home addresses

June 12, 2023

According to BleepingComputer*, Researchers at the North Carolina State University Raleigh have discovered a privacy risk in the Strava app’s heatmap feature that could lead to identifying users’ home addresses. Strava is a popular running companion and fitness-tracking application with over 100 million users worldwide, helping people track their heart rate, activity details, GPS location, … More Strava heatmap feature can be abused to find home addresses