Is nothing sacred? Risky mobile apps steal data and spy on users

ProofPoint ^ | December 16, 2015

[soycd]

Rogue apps rely on ignorance. Social engineering at its most criminal.

Don’t fall for it.

[Paladin2]

Can I buy protection in the gas station bathroom?

[upchuck]

My solution: don’t carry a mobile device.

[proxy_user]

Those Bible apps must have been developed by sinners....

[Swordmaker]

Proofpoint did some comparisons on the prevalence of malware between apps on iOS and Android and found that there were ZERO Bible apps on iOS with Malware but 208 Android Bible apps that were loaded with Malware and 140 that were high-risk. (There are still 3806 Bible Apps on Android were clean of malware if you need one) The infected Bible apps communicate data to over 2,500 servers across forty-two countries. It's not just Christian Bibles that are infected. Qur'ans were also infected at a lower rate in Android. The scanned Infected Qur'ans apps communicate data to 1,440 servers across thirty-six countries. Take warning! -- PING!

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[Organic Panic]

I do not know which Freeper said this a few years ago and I wish I could give them credit.

"When the product is "free" the product is you."

[Scrambler Bob]

M4L Proofpoint for apps

[Swordmaker]

Rogue apps rely on ignorance. Social engineering at its most criminal.

I don't think these rely on ignorance. . . it is pure fraud with these Apps. The only ignorance involved is downloading them from a non-Google Android Play Store source and thinking the app is safe.

[Swordmaker]

"When the product is "free" the product is you."

It was me.

[TruthWillWin]

As in Windows 10?

[soycd]

Exactly right.

[rhoda_penmark]

Yet they don’t specify WHICH Bible app.
I use one called “Bible gateway”. It’s really good and I recommend it.

Wonder if I’m being stalked.

[rhoda_penmark]

We’re ALL sinners, friend. :-)

[minnesota_bound]

Windows 10 is one big app that sells YOU!
Microsoft just copying these guys.

[Fiddlstix]

Click the Pic

[Organic Panic]

“When the product is “free” the product is you.”

-Swordmaker

[texas booster]

This “survey” tells us almost nothing.

Of the apps ‘analyzed” that came up with malicious code, how many were IOS and how many were Android?

If the ratio was 1000:1, then the whole story was not told.

The YouVersion Bible app has been downloaded well over 100,000,000 times. Please don't lump this and other well designed apps in with a mandarin Bible app loaded with PRC tracking code.

[snarkpup]

I heard somewhere that religious web sites are more likely to get hacked (and then serve malware to visitors) than porn sites. The reason given was that porn site webmasters are more likely to be security-savvy and know how to keep their sites from getting hacked.

[Swordmaker]

Of the apps ‘analyzed” that came up with malicious code, how many were IOS and how many were Android?

The article says iOS bible apps had ZERO malicious apps. You can't have a ratio when one side is none. 1000 to none gives one a null math to grasp when trying to do any mathematical comparison. One cannot divide by zero.