Today, Square Enix and Applibot, Inc. announced that its mobile game NieR: Reincarnation will be coming to North American, European, and Korean territories on July 28. NieR: Reincarnation (stylized NieR: Re[in]carnation) is the first mobile from the NieR series. It is an turn-based RPG from the mind of Yoko Taro. MONACA’s Keiichi Okabe is the composer,… Read More »
reader comments 24 with 21 posters participating Share this story Unknown hackers have been exploiting four Android vulnerabilities that allow the execution of malicious code that can take complete control of devices, Google warned on Wednesday. All four of the vulnerabilities were disclosed two weeks ago in Google’s Android Security Bulletin for May. Google has… Read More »
The crocodile man cometh for League of Legends: Wild Rift. Players of the mobile MOBA will see Renekton, the Butcher of the Sands added to the game’s character roster alongside today’s new patch. Renekton is a rage-fueled Ascended warrior from Shurima. Once a great champion, he lost himself to madness while trapped beneath the sands for centuries.… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 13 with 12 posters participating Share this story Makers of high-end Android devices are responding to the discovery of a Qualcomm chip flaw that researchers say could be exploited to partially backdoor about a third of the world’s smartphones. The vulnerability, discovered by researchers from security firm Check Point Research, resides… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 78 with 38 posters participating Share this story Security researchers have uncovered a batch of Google Play apps that stole users’ text messages and made unauthorized purchases on users’ dime. The malware, which was hidden in eight apps that had more than 700,000 downloads, hijacked SMS message notifications and then made… Read More »
reader comments 81 with 40 posters participating Share this story Hackers have compromised more than 120 ad servers over the past year in an ongoing campaign that displays malicious advertisements on tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of devices as they visit sites that, by all outward appearances, are benign. Malvertising is the… Read More »
Enlarge / Insomnia people and mobile-addiction concepts. (credit: Getty Images) Whether you have an iPhone or an Android device, it’s continuously sending data including your location, phone number, and local network details to Apple or Google. Now, a researcher has provided a side-by-side comparison that suggests that, while both iOS and Android collect handset data… Read More »
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Facebook said it has disrupted a hacking operation that used the social media platform to spread iOS and Android malware that spied on Uyghur people from the Xinjiang region of China. Malware for both mobile OSes had advanced capabilities that could steal just about anything stored on an infected device. The… Read More »
reader comments 39 with 32 posters participating Share this story A team of advanced hackers exploited no fewer than 11 zeroday vulnerabilities in a nine-month campaign that used compromised websites to infect fully patched devices running Windows, iOS, and Android, a Google researcher said. Using novel exploitation and obfuscation techniques, a mastery of a wide… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 18 with 16 posters participating Share this story Google is adding its password checkup feature to Android, making the mobile OS the latest company offering to give users an easy way to check if the passcodes they’re using have been compromised. Password Checkup works by checking credentials entered into apps against… Read More »