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Malware Authors Create Android.Exprespam After Prosecutors Drop Case

07

Jan

2013

In October 2012, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested a group of five individuals for their involvement in developing and distributing Android malware that collected personal data, but that did not deter at least one group of scammers from doing the same as they continued to lure Android device owners to their malware. The Tokyo District […]

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Threats From “Free” Android Apps in Japan (Part 2)

27

Nov

2012

Smartphone users in Japan are able to download a wide variety of apps, many of which are either inexpensive or free. Not all of these actually meet what users expect in terms of features, and some even introduce risks that users may not fully understand. In this blog entry, I will report the privacy risks […]

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Under the Hood of BKDR_ZACCESS

07

Nov

2012

In the previous quarter, we reported that we protected against more than 142 million threats in the first half of 2012 alone. One prominent threat in this period was ZACCESS, which is also known as ZeroAccess or SIREFEF. It can push fake applications and other malware onto infected systems, while using its rootkit capabilities to […]

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