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Pikspam: An SMS Spam Botnet

20

Dec

2012

The recent discovery of an Android SMS spam botnet by Cloudmark, which is detected by Symantec as Android.Pikspam, has gained media attention. While delivering spam by botnets is nothing new, mobile technology has opened up new attack vectors to cybercriminals who are using the proven attack techniques of social engineering and spam with success on […]

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We Need More Than Jelly Bean

19

May

2012

Google is set to launch Android 5.0, aka Jelly Bean, this fall. But do we even need it? While Google has made some steps in securing its Play branded marketplace, and offered a few security updates to the operating system, it is a fact that the most targeted Android platform is still 2.x. Why is […]

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Revamped Fake Android Market for SMS Fraud

11

Feb

2012

We have continued monitoring the massive campaign involving SMS Fraud on the mobile platform for a while now as new activities are constantly taking place. New domains are created practically every day and new variants are being released consistently. Most activities are not really noteworthy. However, we did discuss a recent development of interest regarding […]

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