BullGuard Blog

Google has kicked 210 apps from its app store after being informed that they were loaded with hidden adware. The apps have been downloaded more than 150 million times from the Google Play store.

We all know what little kids are like. They’re pocket-sized bundles of energy that bounce of the walls and ceilings all day long, run around screeching and find it absolutely impossible to sit still for even a nano-second, until you put them in front of the TV to watch a cartoon.

Aussie police, in partnership with the FBI’s men in black, have nabbed a 21 year-old cybercrime entrepreneur who had amassed almost one million sets of account detail for popular online services like Netflix, Spotify, Hulu and the PlayStation Network.

GandCrab ransomware first surfaced in 2018 and since then has been a particularly prolific. Its creators are adept at releasing new versions as soon as security researchers develop decryption tools that counter the ransomware. In this way they keep the ransomware ‘fresh’ and still capable of delivering attacks.