Google removed a family of malicious apps, Chamois, from its Play marketplace recently that were found manipulating ad traffic.

Security researchers have identified a new and evasive mobile ransomware strain called Charger on the Google Play app store.

Google has removed 20 apps from Google Play that were spreading a variant of the HummingBad Android malware called Hummingwhale.

Google this week explained how it weighs potentially harmful Android apps using the Verify Apps malware scanner and a scoring system it calls Dead or Insecure.

An cybercrime group from Russia earns $3 million to $5 million daily through defrauding major U.S. websites of video ad revenue.

The Gooligan Android malware steals Google authentication tokens from mobile devices to breach user and corporate accounts.

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including all things Android: the crypto weakness, the full disk encryption bypass, and new malware, Hummingbad, which impacts the mobile operating system. The three also discuss the TP-Link router fiasco. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_July_8_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

The same group of cybercriminals behind a strain of iOS malware uncovered last year have apparently diversified and now dabble in Android malware. The group, dubbed Yingmob, has been running a malware campaign named HummingBad that controls 10 million Android devices globally and rakes in $300,000 a month, researchers said on Friday. According to researchers...