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Targeted Attacks the Next Step in Mobile Malware

Mar

2013

The Android threat landscape continues to evolve in 2013. To distribute Android threats, malware authors are transitioning away from attacking traditional vectors like the Google Play Market and third-party Android markets to vectors like spam and phishing emails and SMS.Recently a new information-stealing Android malware was found being distributed as an attachment in emails as […]

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Fake Cleaning Apps in Google Play: an AutoRun Attack and More

Feb

2013

Almost exactly one year ago, Google announced the addition of a “new layer to Android security,” a service codenamed Bouncer that was intended to provide automated scanning of the Android Market for potentially malicious software. However, as my colleague Jimmy Shah wrote in a previous blog post, Bouncer has not been enough to keep all […]

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Encrypted Scripts From Trojan Can Surprise Angry Birds Players

Sep

2012

The huge popularity of games such as Angry Birds Space, currently in the Top 50 of the most popular Free Apps in the Google Play Market, makes them a perfect cover for malware authors to distribute new malicious code and to target many users. Recently a new malware that downloads and rates apps in the […]

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