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Premium Rate SMS Trojans in Google’s Android Market

12

Dec

2011

Premium rate SMS trojans were discovered in Google’s Android Market earlier today. The developer, named “Lagostrod”, offered supposed free versions of many popular applications. And while Google has shut down the official market account, sites such as AppBrain still list the downloads. Based on AppBrain’s numbers, Lagostrod’s apps were downloaded numerous times. But that isn’t […]

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Survey Scams as Cross-Platform Threats

24

Oct

2011

Tweet For some time now we’ve been reporting about Facebook scams involving surveys that ask for victims’ mobile numbers. These have become rampant, and have used many different lures like Google+ invites and free Breaking Dawn Part 2 movie tickets Another good example is a Facebook page we recently encountered, one claiming to be a […]

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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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