A phone that mimics the Samsung Galaxy S4 arrived on Amazon and eBay with a virus that pretends to be the Google Play Store. The device, marketed as the Star N9500, is built in China and sold by resellers in Belfast a…

Christian Geschkat, product manager at G Data, wrote that the spyware gives criminals "full access to the smartphone." The malware silently harvests contacts, location, call recordings, and payment credentials, then p…

Uupay.D disguises itself as the official Google Play Store icon, appearing in the running processes as a legitimate system app. When a user taps the fake store, the Trojan silently downloads payloads and exfiltrates d…

The trojan’s capabilities extend to bypassing two‑factor authentication and injecting malicious code into banking apps. Because the malware is baked into the firmware, a factory reset does not eradicate it. The only p…