Privacy & Online Safety

To shed light on the world of digital scams, Lookout commissioned a survey that spoke to 1,000 U.S. consumers to understand where people encounter scams.

While QR codes make navigating activities at the Games easy and contactless, it creates opportunities for them to be abused for phishing purposes.

While digital devices and services offer great convenience, they also pose risks to our data and privacy as the separation between our offline and online lives converges.

The main theme I want to get across here is that data privacy is essential, especially as we continue to rely on our mobile devices for personal and...

Large employers such as Wells Fargo have banned TikTok from company-owned devices, but that alone won’t prevent tablets and smartphones used for work to be free of TikTok.

Are cybercriminals and scammer's taking advantage of increased communication around COVID-19? Discovery shows new surveillanceware exploits the pandemic.

Lookout researchers have been tracking Android and iOS surveillanceware, that can exfiltrate contacts, recordings, photos, & more. Discover what was found.

The Lookout Security Intelligence team has discovered an advertising software development kit (SDK) called Igexin that had the capability of spying on victims.

Lookout researchers have identified over a thousand spyware apps related to a threat actor likely based in Iraq. Discover more with Lookout today.

Apple released an update to iOS (10.3) changing how Mobile Safari handles JavaScript pop-ups after Lookout discovered scammers using the functionality to execute scareware.

Encryption and VPNs are excellent tools that protect sensitive data in most situations. But, given the extreme sophistication of the Pegasus attack these tools won’t work.

Millions of people around the world connect to public Wi-Fi networks on their mobile devices as they travel. The problem is that not all networks are official.

We demonstrated an example of what can happen if a malicious app infects a mobile device on 60 Minutes.

Celebrities. They’re just like us! They’re susceptible to the same mobile threats as normal people are, like phishing and malware. Learn how celebrities get hacked.

Remote access trojans that let criminals spy on you are a nasty issue, but when you find one in the Google Play store, it sounds off some alarms.