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More fraudware headaches for the Android Marketplace

09

Jan

2012

Contributors: Conor Murray, Paul Mangan. Fraudulent apps appearing on the official Android marketplace is an ongoing issue and one that we have blogged about in the past. Today we received reports of yet more fraudulent apps capitalizing on popular game titles and masquerading as these games. In this case, the apps are published under the […]

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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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Premium Rate SMS Trojans in Google’s Android Market

12

Dec

2011

Premium rate SMS trojans were discovered in Google’s Android Market earlier today. The developer, named “Lagostrod”, offered supposed free versions of many popular applications. And while Google has shut down the official market account, sites such as AppBrain still list the downloads. Based on AppBrain’s numbers, Lagostrod’s apps were downloaded numerous times. But that isn’t […]

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