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Mobile Threat Landscape: A Decade Later

02

Feb

2012

We already knew that more and more people are becoming tablet and smartphone owners, but two new surveys that were released just this week reinforced that. A Google/Ipsos poll found that smartphone use was growing in all 5 surveyed countries. In the US, smartphone ownership rose from 31% to 38% of the population by September/October […]

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Android Malware Eavesdrops on Users, Uses Google+ as Disguise

13

Aug

2011

Last week, we reported about ANDROIDOS_NICKISPY.A and ANDROIDOS_NICKISPY.B, a kind of Android malware that records phone calls made from an infected device and sends it to a remote site.This week we saw another has the same code structure as ANDROIDOS_NICKISPY.A, also does not display an icon in the device, and executes similar routines, save for […]

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MacDefender undergoes a name change, MacShield

03

Jun

2011

The MacDefender malware has morphed again, now taking the guise of “MacShield.” As in the case of its oldest sibling MacDefender, the MacShield variant has taken the name of a legitimate Mac OSX software product with small distribution, doubtless causing the real developer significant heartache.The UI is essentially unchanged, but as usual all of […]

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