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2011 in Review: Mobile Malware

03

Jan

2012

2011 was a banner year for the Android operating system – as well as for Android malware. The increasing number of Android users made it profitable for attackers to go after them in full force, as we’ve been saying all year long.Where are the threats coming from?Many of these threats arrive via third-party app stores, […]

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Impostor Apps in the Android Market

23

Dec

2011

There seems to be a growing practice where malware authors boldly use similar package names and icons of popular apps for their malware, and then publish this malware on the official Android Market. Unsuspecting users might download this malware under the false pretense that they are getting the free/lite version of a legit app. Similar […]

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“Curious Who’s Stalking You?” – Yes, we’ve heard it before

21

Dec

2011

This social media “stalking” thing, to the best of my knowledge, all began on MySpace. We’ve seen them emerge on Twitter, too: our friends at Sophos wrote a so-called “app” that Twitter purportedly released to track a user’s stalker. Only this time, no such app is ever involved. click to enlarge We’ve seen the tweet […]

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