The malicious malware is designed to find and harvest a slew of sensitive data including credentials, browser data and even cryptocurrency wallets
Security experts analysed over 18,000 apps across 20 app stores to find that 661 blacklisted Bitcoin apps were still available to users.
Parents across the world have been left outraged after a children's app downloaded from Google's official marketplace contained threatening and violent messages.
A technology forum based in Malaysia is under investigation after publishing details of a major data breach which included the personal details of more than 220,000 organ donors.
The discovery comes as cybercriminals increasingly tap into cryptocurrency as lures, payment options or attacks.
"It is also possible for an attacker to take control over the profile pictures the user sees, swapping them for inappropriate content," researchers said.
"With a maximum child tax credit of $1,000 per child, that is a potentially significant return on investment," researchers said.
The security researcher said Uber marked his bug report as "informative", which means it contains "useful information but did warrant an immediate action or fix".
Seoul plan requires local banks to launch real-name system for cryptocurrency to make all transactions traceable in bid to block money laundering.
Hackers frequently look to target and exploit curious users by tapping into trending issues, events in the news or widely publicised ones in their attacks.
Intel has disclosed that the patches were causing devices to reboot unexpectedly among other "unpredictable" behavior.
Clarke is the latest in a slew of US conservative political figures and reporters targeted by the Turkish hacking group.
"Since both the Chrome and Firefox extensions mostly add themselves through forced installs, it's not always possible to avoid getting them," researchers said.
Over the past few years, DDoS attacks have become more sophisticated, common and cheaper to carry out as a popular tool in cybercriminals' arsenal.
The disclosure comes several days after users who purchased products on OnePlus' website reported credit card fraud earlier this month.
A 21-year-old computer hacker from the UK who made more than $700,000 by selling malware on the dark web has been jailed after being found guilty of multiple cybercrime charges.
Security researchers suspect that the Necurs botnet may be giving the new Dridex campaign a boost – something the botnet has done before.
The data breach is suspected to be the work of an "advanced and professional" hacker or hacker group, and could impact nearly half of Norway's population.
The Lebanon-linked hacker group has successfully targeted mobile devices of military personnel, medical professionals, journalists, lawyers, activists and more.
For several months, a primary router of the Muscat Securities Market has both its username and password as "admin".
More than 50 Android apps on Google's Play Store found to be housing malicious code hackers could use to steal Facebook passwords.
High-risk vulnerabilities found in SinVR app leaked personally identifiable information of customers for around five days.
