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SpyEye targeting Android users – just a copy of Zeus’s strategy?

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Sep

2011

In the world of Windows malware, SpyEye is a widely spread malicious toolkit for creating and managing botnets designed primarily for stealing banking credentials and other confidential information from infected systems. SpyEye is a major competitor of infamous Zeus toolkit. Zeus (also known as ZBot) generated a lot of interest in the mobile security community […]

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Rooting Exploit for Android Works Silently

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Sep

2011

In our last blog about Android malware, we discussed the expanding threat landscape for Android malware. Recently, we received an Android package in our collection and observed that this malicious application uses a rooting exploit that targets Android devices running OS Versions 2.3 or earlier to gain root privileges on the compromised device. The malware […]

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Zeus for Android and fake Kaspersky Antivirus 2011

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Jul

2011

Over the weekend I have written about the discovery of the potential Android component of the Zeus information stealing toolkit (also known as Zitmo). I wanted to share an update as there are further developments in the discovery of the relationship between Zeus toolkit and Andr/SMSRep-B. Thanks to Denis from Kaspersky Labs we can now […]

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