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Fighting Mobile Phone Impersonation and Surveillance

29

Dec

2011

Yesterday at the 28th Chaos Communications Congress (28C3), in Berlin, security researchers along with Karsten Nohl and Luca Melette showcased a number of flaws and solutions in GSM mobile phone networks. Karsten Nohl presenting “Defending Mobile Phones” at the 28th Chaos Communications Congress. Day 1 Defeating GSM encryption is not new. Nohl and Melette detailed […]

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Trojan:Android/FakeNotify Gets Updated

28

Dec

2011

Earlier this month, we did a post about a family of premium rate SMS Trojans, which we detected as Trojan:Android/FakeNotify.A. Now we’ve found that the trojan has been updated, with changes to make analysis and detection more troublesome. The new version comes from the same developer, as can be seen from the signing certificate. There’s […]

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Failed Android Premium Rate SMS Trojan

27

Dec

2011

We’ve found Android trojans that attempt to send SMS messages to premium rate SMS numbers. That’s not unusual. What is different though is that these trojans don’t work. The trojans (detected as Trojan:Android/RuFailedSMS.A) use these permissions: And pretend to be installers for a range of applications, with each malicious app offering to download a package […]

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