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Android Permissions: For Apps or Ads?

10

Jan

2012

An Android application package (APK) can include multiple modules; one or more of these modules may be an advertisement SDK. That’s pretty normal nowadays, as many Android developers currently use such modules to compensate for providing their products to users for free. So what happens if the app is clean, but the ad module is […]

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Android malware: new traps for users

29

Dec

2011

There is no secret that cybercriminals try to intimidate users very often in order to infect their machines. We’ve seen a lot of examples of cybercriminals using black SEO for redirecting users to web pages which emulate AV scanning. And there is no surprise that the results of such ‘scanning’ show that the user’s machine […]

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Connections Between DroidDreamLight and DroidKungFu

15

Nov

2011

We were recently able to analyze the routines of the latest DroidKungFu variant, detected as ANDROIDOS_KUNGFU.CI. While we were monitoring the traffic between ANDROIDOS_KUNGFU.CI and its remote server, we chanced upon a command to delete a certain package.In the command above, the server instructs the malware to delete a package called com.practical.share. We have seen […]

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