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Fraudulent Adult Dating Services Turn 10 Years Old, Still Evolving

07

Jun

2013

McAfee Mobile Research monitors adult one-click-fraud applications on Google Play that are targeted at Japanese users. Although the attackers appeared to have stopped uploading these apps in May, they have now resumed the attacks. We have confirmed about 600 malicious applications have been published since the beginning of April.We have also confirmed that another type […]

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Trojan:Android/Pincer.A

05

Apr

2013

Protip: don’t install an Android application package file if it’s named “Certificate.apk”.It’s not legit (obviously).Trojan:Android/Pincer.A is able to forward SMS messages and perform other actions based on commands it receives from its C&C. When installed, it will appear in the application menu as “Certificate” and will display related bogus messages when run. Previous malicious mobile […]

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Free Android USSD vulnerability protection from ESET now on Google Play

02

Oct

2012

If you use an Android phone you may have heard of something called the USSD vulnerability. This allows a nasty piece of malicious software to reset your Android to its factory default settings and permanently delete your data. We will describe the USSD problem in more detail in a moment but first we want to […]

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