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How Mobile Ads Abuse Permissions

29

Oct

2012

It has become an inevitable part of the Android user experience that apps will ask for a long laundry list of permissions. Many apps will ask you to grant them network access so they can download updates. Others seek permission to read your phone’s state and identity so calls won’t disrupt them from doing what […]

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Encrypted Scripts From Trojan Can Surprise Angry Birds Players

29

Sep

2012

The huge popularity of games such as Angry Birds Space, currently in the Top 50 of the most popular Free Apps in the Google Play Market, makes them a perfect cover for malware authors to distribute new malicious code and to target many users. Recently a new malware that downloads and rates apps in the […]

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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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