Posts Tagged ‘play market’

Android.Dropdialer Identified on Google Play

Jul

2012

Symantec has identified a new malware posted to the official Google Play market. The threats were posted as two popular titles, one as “Super Mario Bros.” and the other was packaged as “GTA 3 Moscow City”. Both were posted to Google Play on June 24 and since then have generated in the range of 50,000 […]

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Unwanted Apps in Google Play Pose as Fake AV

May

2012

In recent years one of the most prevalent malware threats for PCs (and lately Mac users) is fake-antivirus software, which pretends to be a legitimate security program. Its real purpose is to charge victims a fee to remove a nonexistent threat. The same threat has now been ported to mobile devices. In some cases we […]

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OpFake Goes Undercover as GTA3 10th Anniversary Edition

Apr

2012

Grand Theft Auto, someone please think of the children and so on. Me, I’d rather be thinking of my Android because we’re going to take a look at a dubious “GTA 10th Anniversary Edition” that wants to carjack your phonebill. Click to Enlarge After wading through the “you really want to download this game, don’t […]

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