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Malicious Dating, Ad Services Plague Japanese Users

Jun

2013

In a previous blog McAfee Mobile Research reported on fraudulent adult dating-service applications on Google Play that target Japanese users. Many other suspicious applications are spreading on Google Play in Japan, and try to lure users to similar fraudulent sites.These suspicious applications have appeared on Google Play since May. They offer adult or nonadult image […]

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MDK: The Largest Mobile Botnet in China

Jan

2013

In February 2012, we blogged about Android.Bmaster (a.k.a. Rootstrap), which infected hundreds of thousands of devices. At that time, it was the largest mobile botnet documented to date. Recently, the Bmaster botnet has been overtaken by the newly uncovered MDK botnet. Dubbed as Android.Troj.mdk, Kingsoft believes it is hidden in more than 7,000 apps and […]

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Pikspam: An SMS Spam Botnet

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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