New Android virus hacks million Google accounts – RTL News RTL News

A new virus for Android has more than a million Google accounts hacked, allowing criminals to gain access to emails, photos and documents. The virus is aimed at smartphones and tablets with Android versions, Jelly Bean, kit kat and Lollipop, which run together on 74 percent of all Android devices.

It is unclear how many Dutch users between the hacked Google accounts sit. The majority of the infections with the virus, called Gooligan, takes place in Asia.

how it works Gooligan-virus

The Gooligan-virus will be hidden in apps that look legitimate, such as a game or chatapp. These infected apps are in most cases offered alternative appwinkels, which are popular because, among other things, paid apps for free can download.

as soon As the user of the infected install the app, his or her e-mail address and authentication token is stolen. With the latter you can a user log in without the password. In this way criminals access to emails, photos and documents, as the Google services are made. In many cases, there were also additional apps with advertising installed.

The Gooligan-virus works on devices with Android Jelly Bean, kit kat and Lollipop, where there is a vulnerability in the operating system that the stealing of the data. Users of Android 6.0 and higher, about 24 percent of all Android users are not vulnerable to this virus.

Google take action

“We are seeing a change in the strategy of hackers, where they focus on mobile devices to sensitive information to steal, which is stored on those devices,” says Michael Shaulov, head of mobile products at security company Check Point. This company has the Gooligan-virus was discovered.

Check Point works closely together with Google for the virus, the head pressing. Thus, infected users by Google, will be contacted and additional checks introduced to ensure that Android users don’t accidentally have a rogue app with the Gooligan-virus install.

According to Google, there are as yet no indications that the criminals are actually personal data such as e-mails have captured.

are you infected?

Check Point offers a free service that you can use to check if your account is seized. There you can add your Google account to enter, then the check to perform.

“When there’s a burglary on your account, then you will need a clean version of your operating system to install on your mobile devices,” said Shaulov. He recommends, if you’re infected, go to a certified professional or the manufacturer of your phone to contact us.

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New Android virus hacks million Google accounts – RTL News

A new virus for Android has more than a million Google accounts hacked, allowing criminals to gain access to emails, photos and documents. The virus is aimed at smartphones and tablets with Android versions, Jelly Bean, kit kat and Lollipop, which run together on 74 percent of all Android devices.

It is unclear how many Dutch users between the hacked Google accounts sit. The majority of the infections with the virus, called Gooligan, takes place in Asia.

how it works Gooligan-virus

The Gooligan-virus will be hidden in apps that look legitimate, such as a game or chatapp. These infected apps are in most cases offered alternative appwinkels, which are popular because, among other things, paid apps for free can download.

as soon As the user of the infected install the app, his or her e-mail address and authentication token is stolen. With the latter you can a user log in without the password. In this way criminals access to emails, photos and documents, as the Google services are made. In many cases, there were also additional apps with advertising installed.

The Gooligan-virus works on devices with Android Jelly Bean, kit kat and Lollipop, where there is a vulnerability in the operating system that the stealing of the data. Users of Android 6.0 and higher, about 24 percent of all Android users are not vulnerable to this virus.

Google take action

“We are seeing a change in the strategy of hackers, where they focus on mobile devices to sensitive information to steal, which is stored on those devices,” says Michael Shaulov, head of mobile products at security company Check Point. This company has the Gooligan-virus was discovered.

Check Point works closely together with Google for the virus, the head pressing. Thus, infected users by Google, will be contacted and additional checks introduced to ensure that Android users don’t accidentally have a rogue app with the Gooligan-virus install.

According to Google, there are as yet no indications that the criminals are actually personal data such as e-mails have captured.

are you infected?

Check Point offers a free service that you can use to check if your account is seized. There you can add your Google account to enter, then the check to perform.

“When there’s a burglary on your account, then you will need a clean version of your operating system to install on your mobile devices,” said Shaulov. He recommends, if you’re infected, go to a certified professional or the manufacturer of your phone to contact us.

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New Android malware infected more than 1 million Google-accounts – NU.nl

The malware was discovered by security firm Check Point Software. The company is already working with Google together to prevent the spread of the malware and the victims to notify.

Gooligan is incorporated in a number of apps outside the Play Store to be offered. It is mainly to apps that normally cost money.

The malware has root access to Android devices and can, as in the data of users on Gmail, Google Photos, Google Docs, Google Play, Google Drive and G Suite. Still, it would be Gooligan to be used primarily to apps from Google Play to download and that in the name of the unwitting victim a positive review to give. Developers to pay for such reviews.

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The malware focuses on devices with Android 4 (Jelly Bean, kit kat) and Android 5 (Lollipop). More than 73 percent of the active Android devices run on those versions, 9 per cent of them reside in Europe.

Gooligan infected, according to security researchers daily 13.000 Android devices, via in each case, 86 infected apps. Users with infected devices would be in addition to unwanted apps pop-up ads.

Google has apps that are associated with the malware from the Play Store removed. Also disrupts the company to the servers of the creators of the malware.

Check Point Software has created a page where users can check whether their device is infected. If yes, then recommends the company to a clean installation of Android to do or to refrain from doing, then the Google account password to change.

By: NU.nl

Huawei is planning for Android 7.0 Nougat known – All About Phones

more and more companies are giving their devices the seventh version of Android: Android 7.0 Nougat. With this update, there are a number of changes brought compared to Android Marshmallow, such as split-screen multitasking. Now Huawei officially confirmed which devices the update to the latest Android version.

Nougat-update

Together with the Nougat-update Huawei also these devices can update to EMUI 5.0, which is also a number of improvements. A there of is that there is now an app drawer to find it is in the skin, which previous EMUI versions don’t have. Huawei has decided to six devices in addition to the Level 9, which, by default, already on EMUI 5.0 and Androi 7.0 Nougat is running, update to the latest version of Google’s operating system.

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The following devices are being updated to Android 7.0 Nougat with EMUI 5.0:

the Huawei Mate 8
Huawei P9
Huawei P9 Lite
Huawei P9 Plus
Huawei Nova
Huawei Nova Plus (not available in the Netherlands)

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Huawei Mate 9

The unit which is standard on Android 7.0 Nougat runs with the EMUI 5.0 skin of the Chinese company is the Huawei Mate 9. This is about a month ago, announced in Munich and has, together with the Porche Design Degree 9 first the EMUI 5.0 skin. The Level 9 has a Kirin 960 chipset from Huawei themselves and in combination with 4GB of ram. The device has a 5.9-inchscherm with a Full-HD resolution. Despite its large screen size, says Huawei, the device is not too large, by its edge-screen ratio of 77,5%. This means that 77.5% of the front of the front is filled with screen.

A big improvement, according to Huawei at the Level 9 is the rear camera. This is a dual camera which is partnered with camerabedrijf Leica. By these two cameras and says Huawei with the Mate 9 optical zoom. This does not happen by switching between the cameras, but both cameras at the same time.

Porsche Design

in Addition to the 'normal' Level 9, the Chinese company is still a different design aangekonigd. With a Porsche on the stage to drive for most people, however, clear that it really is a luxury item would be. This is the Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design, a device which, together with the brand Porsche Design-designed and, according to several people is actually more of a collectible item than a smartphone for daily use. This device has 6GB of ram and has a 5.5-inch Quad HD display with the Amoled technology, as opposed to the IPS LCD panel which is used in the normal Level 9. This is the Level 9 Porsche Design suitable for Daydream VR and the regular Degree 9 does not.

Availability

When the above devices Android 7.0 Nougat is still not clear. It is likely that this is the first half of 2017 will be, but in this area is still nothing certain.

Source: DroidApp

This is Sony’s first smartphone with Android 7.0 Nougat – Android Planet

Sony has started the roll out of the Xperia X Performance Android 7.0 update. It is Sony’s first smartphone with the new software.

Owners of the Sony Xperia X Performance can, from today, an update to Android 7.0 expect. Sony has tonight started the global rollout of the new software. The update will be first rolled out for simlockvrije models. However, it can have a few days to weeks for this is available for everyone.

The version number of the updated firmware is 39.2.A.0.327. The update is over-the-air rolled out, so you will automatically get a notification as soon as the new software for your Xperia X Performance is available.

It is the first smartphone from Sony that can work with Android Nougat. On paper, this is remarkable, because the Sony several more recent and popular smartphones, like the Xperia XZ and X Compact. The X Performance was given in August, however, a preliminary version of the software, which the manufacturer Nougat has extensively been able to test. For other smartphones, there should be still a little longer to be tested.

Sony did recently been announced that a total of nine devices will update to Android 7.0 Nougat. The complete list you can find in our overview of Android 7.0 updates. When the other updates are exactly the appear is, however, still unknown.

Android 7.0 Nougat introduces an splitscreenmodus, which allows you to have two apps open at the same time can have. Also, the Doze-mode enhanced, thus the duration of battery power on stand-by reduced. Another great innovation is reflected in the notifications. This is the appearance adapted, where incoming messages from one app more compactly grouped. You can, however, also expand to direct individual messages to respond, without the app to open.

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Threema for Android 2.93 – Tweakers

http://uk.businessinsider…a-launch-isis-2015-6?on=1

In 2015, it was apparently still to 3.5 million users. I can imagine that a year later something more, especially after Whatsapp announced that data from being shared with Facebook. But it remains a huge dwarf compared to Whatsapp (800 million?) and Telegram (100 million users). The app is paid (2.99 EUR on Android and iOS), which may be people to scare them off.

Also, I see the unique selling point of Threema is not really more since both Whatsapp as Telegram end-to-end encryption. Or, I now see something about the head?

[Comment amended by tomtom137 on 29 november 2016 15:40]

Hill Climb Racing 2 offers lots of challenges and multiplayer – Android Planet

Hill Climb Racing 2 Free

Fingersoft is back: the developers of one of the most popular Android games ever have a new game. Hill Climb Racing 2 is now in the Play Store.

Hill Climb Racing 2

The first Hill Climb Racing-game appeared in 2012 and is one of the most popular Android games ever, with more than a hundred million downloads in the Play Store. More than four years after the release of this is Fingersoft, the developer of the game, with a successor.

Just like in the first game, you control a car with gas and brake pedals at the bottom of the image. The game features over thirty levels that you must complete. The better your score, the more you earn. That money you can then use to new cars to buy and to upgrade. The developers say the next time, new levels to add.

If you’re not a fan of the separate levels, then, there is always an endless mode. The goal of the game is to get your car as far as possible, to let them drive, without the crash or that the petrol runs out.

New is the addition of an online multiplayer mode. Your friends may have their course records in a level to save and then to your relay. Then you can try their times to match. The convenient part is that not all players are online at the same time have to be to get against each other to win the race.

Although the game itself is free, Fingersoft, however, a few in-app purchases added. Thus you can, among other the appearance of your driver adjust. You can also spend money to faster your car is to upgrade, but the vast majority of the upgrades is also just earn by playing the game.

Hill Climb Racing 2 download

You can Hill Climb Racing 2 download in the Play Store via the link below. The game works on every device with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean or newer and can be downloaded for free.

→ Download Hill Climb Racing 2 in Google Play (free)

New Android apps in the Google Play Store: week 48 – Androidworld

We put each week the most interesting new apps and greatest app updates for you at a glance, and this week, among other things, an app to handy passwords to generate and the update of Videoland which you offline videos can be view.

New apps week 48 – 2016

Beta Apps – find test versions of apps

Developers can have multiple versions of their apps in the Google Play Store places. To new features of their apps to test, they can make use of the possibility of an alpha – and beta program through the Play Store. With the application Beta Apps do you find this kind of program’s in a straightforward list. We also have all of 10 interesting program for you put on a list.

Beta Apps is free to use and download, but the list will still be expanded before the app really is useful.

ThinkGeek – shop for geeks

The shop ThinkGeek is known for its witty t-shirts, and (often) useless gadgets. Many of the products that are offered on the website have to do with science fiction, fantasy, and other things where the heart of the real ‘nerd’ will beat faster. With the official (web)app, you have ThinkGeek also always in your pocket.

The app from ThinkGeek, of course, is free to download and use.

Passion – easy-to-remember passwords

creating a good password is not always easy and many people use now wachtwoordmanagers to have very strong passwords generate and remember it. If you chose not to do so, you can Passion to try. This application generates passwords that consist of random words.

The app Passion is free to download and use.

New and extensively discussed

The Last Table – last-minute eating out with discount

You can often find inexpensive last-minute travel, but can now also be cheaper to eat out by ‘last-minute’ a restaurant to find out where another place is with the Dutch app The Last Table.

Read our full article about The Final Table here.

Updates

Google apps: Google Maps

Google already shows a time the opening hours of shops in Google Maps and also information about how busy it usually is in those shops at a given time. This information is extended with real-time information about how busy it now in these stores.

Dutch apps: PostNL and Videoland

PostNL let you even more rather know when there is a packet to start you on the road. When companies have a package to sign, will the PostNL app you that to let you know, even if the package still hasn’t even at PostNL has arrived.

streaming service Videoland introduced last week its new feature ‘Download-to-Go’. Allows movies and series offline are saved, so you can view it without an active internet connection.

Other apps: Microsoft Office, Telegram and Wikipedia

Users of the cloudopslagdienst Box can now sort their files, directly edit in the mobile Office apps from Microsoft, such as Word and Powerpoint.

The latest version of Telegram provides a number of new features including Instant View and Telegraph. With that first you can take messages from a number of sites directly within the Telegram read, and with the second you can also work on blog posts writing from the Telegram.

Premium-users of the navigation app Swiftkey will now be able to their location during the drive parts. This helps us to know, for example, family and friends when you almost arrive at the place of destination.

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New Android apps in the Google Play Store: week 48 – Androidworld

We put each week the most interesting new apps and greatest app updates for you at a glance, and this week, among other things, an app to handy passwords to generate and the update of Videoland which you offline videos can be view.

New apps week 48 – 2016

Beta Apps – find test versions of apps

Developers can have multiple versions of their apps in the Google Play Store places. To new features of their apps to test, they can make use of the possibility of an alpha – and beta program through the Play Store. With the application Beta Apps do you find this kind of program’s in a straightforward list. We also have all of 10 interesting program for you put on a list.

Beta Apps is free to use and download, but the list will still be expanded before the app really is useful.

ThinkGeek – shop for geeks

The shop ThinkGeek is known for its witty t-shirts, and (often) useless gadgets. Many of the products that are offered on the website have to do with science fiction, fantasy, and other things where the heart of the real ‘nerd’ will beat faster. With the official (web)app, you have ThinkGeek also always in your pocket.

The app from ThinkGeek, of course, is free to download and use.

Passion – easy-to-remember passwords

creating a good password is not always easy and many people use now wachtwoordmanagers to have very strong passwords generate and remember it. If you chose not to do so, you can Passion to try. This application generates passwords that consist of random words.

The app Passion is free to download and use.

New and extensively discussed

The Last Table – last-minute eating out with discount

You can often find inexpensive last-minute travel, but can now also be cheaper to eat out by ‘last-minute’ a restaurant to find out where another place is with the Dutch app The Last Table.

Read our full article about The Final Table here.

Updates

Google apps: Google Maps

Google already shows a time the opening hours of shops in Google Maps and also information about how busy it usually is in those shops at a given time. This information is extended with real-time information about how busy it now in these stores.

Dutch apps: PostNL and Videoland

PostNL let you even more rather know when there is a packet to start you on the road. When companies have a package to sign, will the PostNL app you that to let you know, even if the package still hasn’t even at PostNL has arrived.

streaming service Videoland introduced last week its new feature ‘Download-to-Go’. Allows movies and series offline are saved, so you can view it without an active internet connection.

Other apps: Microsoft Office, Telegram and Wikipedia

Users of the cloudopslagdienst Box can now sort their files, directly edit in the mobile Office apps from Microsoft, such as Word and Powerpoint.

The latest version of Telegram provides a number of new features including Instant View and Telegraph. With that first you can take messages from a number of sites directly within the Telegram read, and with the second you can also work on blog posts writing from the Telegram.

Premium-users of the navigation app Swiftkey will now be able to their location during the drive parts. This helps us to know, for example, family and friends when you almost arrive at the place of destination.

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CyanogenMod brings Nexus 4 Android 7.1 Nougat – Android Planet Android Planet

Google is already quite some time ago, stopped with the support of the LG Nexus 4. Now, the popular custom rom CyanogenMod added support for the Nexus 4 that the device on Android 7.1.

The developers of CyanogenMod have an experimental version of the custom rom put online for the Nexus 4. This version is still in a testing phase, but will be further developed to a stable version. Usually are experimental versions of CyanogenMod is quite stable, but due to bugs and crashes, not suitable as a software for daily use.

With version 14.1 of CyanogenMod will get the Nexus 4 all the new features of Android 7.1 Nougat. Among other things, the new version of Doze and the new way of notifications to display on this way to the Nexus 4. You can also use Android 7.1 two apps next to each other in the splitscreenmodus.

The Nexus 4 was four years ago and released last updated to Android 5.1 Lollipop. With a custom rom you can the four year old smartphone yet on a newer version of Android, such as CyanogenMod. With the latter, you’ll have all sorts of handy features, such as double tapping on the screen to turn it on and customizing your notificatiescherm.

CyanogenMod 14.1 download

The experimental version of CyanogenMod 14.1 for the Nexus 4 is now available to download from the official CyanogenMod website. It is important to remember that the software is not yet finished and is not suitable for daily use. The stable version, that later will appear, will be here for suitable. Also do you have any knowledge of custom roms for the software to install. On the CyanogenMod wiki you will find comprehensive instructions that explain how to install your software.

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Google and Bertelsmann offer a stock Android-courses – Androidworld

Google and the media company Bertelsmann offer of 10,000 Europeans a basic course or advanced course on Android development via Udacity. Interested parties can register now.

Nanodegrees and courses

Google already provides a time a number of courses via Udacity, a platform for online training. At Udacity, it is possible to a lot of courses free to follow, but for the guidance of teachers and ultimately the achievement of a degree should be paid.

in Addition to the courses that Google offers, there are also complete programs for developers. Google has two of these so-called ‘nanodegrees’ for Android development. In a nanodegree, you follow various courses under the supervision of teachers, and get to the end of your paper. To follow a nanodegree, you will pay $ 199 per month (about 187 euros) and you get 50% discount when you a degree gets within 12 months.

10.000 ‘scholarships’

The scholarships that Google and Bertelsmann from, consist of 9000 times three months of free use of the Android Basics: User Interface-course. The best 1000 participants in this course will also have three months access to the Android Basics Nanodegree.

The other 1000 recipients of these scholarships will three months be able to access the Associate Android Developer Program. This allows advanced developers to an official Google certification. This program cost is normally $ 750 (about 705 euros) and the costs for the exam are included in the exchange.

Bertelsmann has also indicated Udacity to use for the training of its employees. In the coming years, the company has approximately 2000 employees a scholarship for a nanodegree.

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to be eligible for a scholarship, you need to register via this website. The tenders close on 18 december and the scholarships will be assigned on January 5, 2017.

Via: Google

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CyanogenMod brings Android 7.1 to Google Nexus 4 – Android Planet

Google is already quite some time ago, stopped with the support of the LG Nexus 4. Now, the popular custom rom CyanogenMod added support for the Nexus 4 that the device on Android 7.1.

The developers of CyanogenMod have an experimental version of the custom rom put online for the Nexus 4. This version is still in a testing phase, but will be further developed to a stable version. Usually are experimental versions of CyanogenMod is quite stable, but due to bugs and crashes, not suitable as a software for daily use.

With version 14.1 of CyanogenMod will get the Nexus 4 all the new features of Android 7.1 Nougat. Among other things, the new version of Doze and the new way of notifications to display on this way to the Nexus 4. You can also use Android 7.1 two apps next to each other in the splitscreenmodus.

The Nexus 4 was four years ago and released last updated to Android 5.1 Lollipop. With a custom rom you can the four year old smartphone yet on a newer version of Android, such as CyanogenMod. With the latter, you’ll have all sorts of handy features, such as double tapping on the screen to turn it on and customizing your notificatiescherm.

CyanogenMod 14.1 download

The experimental version of CyanogenMod 14.1 for the Nexus 4 is now available to download from the official CyanogenMod website. It is important to remember that the software is not yet finished and is not suitable for daily use. The stable version, that later will appear, will be here for suitable. Also do you have any knowledge of custom roms for the software to install. On the CyanogenMod wiki you will find comprehensive instructions that explain how to install your software.

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Malware on Android and what you can do to prevent it – Tablet Magazine

Malware on Android is a problem, but you as a user of the system, the risk itself also minimize. So, you can find more malicious applications out of Google Play within the digital retail store of Android. In this article we will discuss everything you need to know about mailware on Android.

Malware on Android – what is it?

Malware is software on a pc, smartphone or tablet or other smart devices – that does things that you don’t want or know that they do. The are not the apps that show ads or annoying notifications to send, since there will often be permission during the install. But sometimes it is a mess, when developers toestemmingenmodel of Android exploit and for example, ads in the notification bar show – that is not what a user had in mind.

But malware is certainly present on Android and have a problem to call, even though only a relatively small percentage of Android owners here suffer from. We say relatively, because it is often still a lot of people. When there are more than 1.6 billion Android devices in use and less than one percent suffer from harmful software, then it is still for millions of people. Fortunately, Google tries here’s what to do, for example, by monthly updates.

And that updates will also be released for other manufacturers, so that they have the security of their devices to maintain. But not all manufacturers do this, and this is where the problem lies. Devices of Google and Samsung are, for example, is better protected by the monthly update system, while Motorola there again not to do. Despite the fact that it is relatively not on a large scale that people at risk by the lack of updates, is and remains a worrisome development.

Malware on Android – what can I do?

But fortunately, you can also a lot of do it yourself to ensure that you will get malware on Android. One of the best tips anyone can give you is that you can’t just apps outside Google Play to install. So do not be stupid and spend a few euro on that one app, which is often used in the probeertijd and do not go immediately to the internet, looking for the illegal apk file. Because there count attackers, so there is already a lot of devices are unnecessarily affected. In addition, take your one’s income with such action.

you can Read also always about a manufacturer or developer. Samsung is now apparent that the company devices are still a long time supports updates in the field of security especially), but that is mainly to be a high-end model. A cheaper model you can probably get better from a manufacturer other buy, which it turns out that the equipment continues to provide updates. The same is true for developers: check out what other people have said about the developer in the comments at the bottom of an app page within Google Play.

There you will find also the reactions about and more about the experiences with a specific app. So it was in the past that a popular bestandenmanager suddenly strange things did after a major update and that you can see through to the reviews to scroll. If the news is big enough, yet, about written (ES File Explorer added, for example, suddenly strange adware), through different media. So it’s good to stay informed on the latest developments of (especially large) apps.

Virus scanners and other apps that can help in protecting your device, help is often not really the things to avoid. If you are still a safe idea to find some app to download, look for one that is light (and not your Android is slowing down due to the many operations that need to be done) or little to do with your data. As last we want to emphasize that you do not have to think that Android is a platform filled with malware is because that is simply not the case. But remain alert is what is on the long term works best.

Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

One of the better applications with regard to removal of malware is the free app Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. This application we use on our Windows pcs and is also available as an Android application. If you think your device is very slow and it is not successful the device is faster, then, do you think a scan with this app. The app has an average rating of 4.3 stars and is rated by 93,281 users. Also, the app regularly updates with.

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