Researchers at U.S.-based mobile security vendor NQ Mobile claim to have discovered the first rootkit designed to insert malicious apps into the install routines of legitimate software to give them ...

Researchers have detected a family of malicious apps, some that were available in Google Play, that contain malicious code capable of secretly rooting an estimated 90 percent of all Android phones. In ...

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