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Search Monetization As a New Threat to the Mobile Platform

31

Jan

2012

Last week we came across a report about a Plankton variant embedded in various apps emerging in the Android Market. One of the samples we inspected is a puzzle game called Sexy Ladies-2.apk, which is detected as ANDROIDOS_PLANKTON.P along with many other apps related to it.Other external reports tell of the millions of app downloads with […]

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Are You Ready For Some Football?

25

Jan

2012

Contributor: Masaki Suenaga We certainly are! It is American football season and the Super Bowl is right around the corner. Apparently, so are the malware authors. It would not be the first time they took advantage of this sporting event. Back in 2007, the Dolphins (hosts for Super Bowl XLI) had their website compromised by […]

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Unlock Your Phone’s Hidden Features!… Not.

10

Jan

2012

Yesterday, we stumbled across this ad from an Android-related site:Clicking this led to a malicious Android Market:Samples found here are detected as Trojan:Android/FakeNotify.A.As usual, other malicious sites are hosted on the same IP address as the malicious Android Market. One site that came to our attention claimed to unlock hidden features of the phone. This […]

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