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Obad.a Trojan now being distributed via mobile botnets

Sep

2013

In late May we reported on the details of Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a, the most sophisticated mobile Trojan to date. At the time we had almost no information about how this piece of malware gets onto mobile devices. We have since been examining how the Trojan is distributed and discovered that the malware owners have developed a technique […]

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Hello from Malaysia

Mar

2013

In mid-February 2013 a Kaspersky user from Malaysia asked us to check a Google Play application called My HRMIS & JPA Demo developed by Nur Nazri. The user was suspicious about the large number of permissions required by the app, though its only stated function was to open four websites. After launching the app shows […]

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Cybercriminals Hop On the Google Project Glass Bandwagon

Mar

2013

Cybercriminals tend to leverage what’s popular and new. Case in point, the much-anticipated Google Project Glass is being used as a social engineering lure to trick unsuspecting users into scams.We found that one of the top results for the search term “free Google glasses” is an eye-catching YouTube link with the title [{FREE}] Google Project Glass […]

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