New Instagram credential stealers discovered on Google Play
ESET researchers discovered 13 new Instagram credential stealers on Google play and looked into the motivations behind their fraudulent schemes.
Education: Masters in Informatic Engineering of the Technical University in Kosice
Highlights of your career? Malware Researcher
Position and history at ESET? Joined ESET as a Malware Researcher in 2011
What malware do you hate the most? Adware and ransomware
Favorite activities? Gym, squash, reading
What is your golden rule for cyberspace? Be reasonably paranoid
Favorite computer game/activity? Elasto Mania
ESET researchers discovered 13 new Instagram credential stealers on Google play and looked into the motivations behind their fraudulent schemes.
Lukas StefankoESET researchers have observed an increased number of apps on Google Play using social engineering techniques to boost their ratings, ranging from legitimate apps, through adware to malware.
Lukas StefankoTalking Android ransomware sounds like something out of a science fiction movie. It's not - it's very real, explains ESET's Lukas Stefanko.
Lukas StefankoESET researchers have discovered a new variant of botnet-forming Android banking malware based on source code made public a couple of months ago.
Lukas StefankoESET has spotted a new banking malware on Google Play. Disguised as a weather forecast app, it steals banking credentials and locks screens.
Lukas StefankoAndroid users are exposed to a new malicious app imitating Adobe Flash Player and serving as an entrance gate for potentially any kind of dangerous malware
Lukas StefankoESET researchers have discovered fake Prisma apps of different types, including several dangerous trojan downloaders. The Google Play security team has since removed them.
Lukas StefankoESET has discovered the first ever fake lockscreen app on Google Play, named Pokemon GO Ultimate. As its characteristics suggest, it deliberately locks the screen right after the app is started forcing the user to restart the device.
Lukas StefankoESET has discovered eight fake applications on Google Play, which were promising to boost the number of followers on users’ social network profiles. Our security software is detecting these as Android/Fasurke.
Lukas StefankoRecently, we informed you about a Ray-Ban scam campaign flooding Facebook via hacked profiles. It seems this hasn’t satisfied the attackers They're back.
Lukas StefankoMy video, My first video, Private video: Don’t fall for this Facebook scam, which is infecting accounts around the world with a very high rate of success.
Lukas StefankoRecently, we’ve observed a new wave of scams on Facebook. Crooks are luring social network users to visit bogus Ray-Ban e-shops and buy heavily discounted sunglasses there. Victims’ payment card details are at risk.
Lukas StefankoThis malware masquerades as Flash Player, behaves like a screen locker, and can bypass two-factor authentication. This combination of features turns it into a powerful tool for stealing money from victims’ bank accounts.
Lukas StefankoESET researchers have found a large campaign of malicious porn clicker type apps on Google Play. These trojans belong to a single family of malicious apps masquerading as popular games and/or applications. They are designed and systematically modified to bypass Google’s security checks.
Lukas StefankoLock-screen types and file-encrypting “crypto-ransomware”, both of which have been causing major financial and data losses for many years, have made their way to the Android platform. ESET has prepared a topical white paper on the growth of this insidious Android malware.
Robert Lipovsky and Lukas StefankoIn order to help make Google Play a safer place for Android users, ESET continues to monitor the official Android app market for malicious or potentially unwanted applications.
Lukas StefankoESET recently discovered an interesting stealth attack on Android users, an app that is a regular game but with an interesting addition: the application was bundled with another application.
Lukas StefankoThe latest ESET discovery of the first known Android lock-screen-type ransomware that spreads in the wild and sets the phone's PIN lock is examined.
Lukas StefankoA recently identified trojan porn clicker is still infecting apps on Google Play.
Lukas StefankoOver 500,000 Android users targeted by phishing apps harvesting their Facebook credentials. ESET detects these trojans as Android/Spy.Feabme.A.
Robert Lipovsky and Lukas Stefanko