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Premium Abusers Also Check for Keywords

17
Aug
2011

New threat wants to subscribe your device to premium services.A few months back, we reported on an Android malware targeting China Mobile subscribers by abusing premium services, and more recently, one that monitors for certain keywords in text messages. What’s the connection between these two? Well, recently we were able to analyze an Android malware sample […]

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Trojanized Android App Checks for Keywords in SMS Messages

06
Aug
2011

Android malware monitoring for messages sent to an infected device from specific numbers is something that we’ve frequently seen in the past. This is typically done by malware to intercept messages from premium numbers, in order to prevent the user from suspecting a malware infection in their device. The Android malware we recently saw however […]

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