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New Android Ransomware Locks Device Completely

17

Jul

2014

Android users are a constant target for cybercrooks, who have released a new scareware with ransomware capabilities that locks the mobile phone completely. The fresh piece poses as a legitimate app that can be downloaded from third-party Android software repositories, and asks for administrator privileges. Once the elevated permissions are obtained, it automatically blocks the […]

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Detecting Hidden Administrator Apps on Your Mobile Device

18

Jun

2013

Last week, we talked about the OBAD Android malware, which installed itself as an administrator on the device and used a vulnerability in Android to hide this fact from the user.One effect of this particular behavior was to make removal of this threat very difficult. Apps that have set themselves up as administrators require user […]

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TDL file system

14

Jun

2011

@RedNose commented on the blog I put up recently about the tool my Russian colleagues have made available for dumping TDL’s hidden file system: I’m going to respond here in case anyone else is confused about this.“I ran the tool and it did not show anything. Does it mean that TDSS is not present?”No, that’s […]

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