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Another Fake Application for Android Found on Google Play

Jul

2013

Recently we released a blog talking about the difficulties of keeping app stores free of malicious applications. Today our automated system flagged yet another example of a misleading application that was posted on the Google Play store.The application, named Next Launcher 3D Pro, purports to be a free version of the legitimate app Next Launcher […]

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Fake Application Found on Amazon Appstore for Android

Jul

2013

Keeping an app store free of malicious applications can be a hard task as we have discussed in our previous blogs. Fake or misleading applications, in particular, are often the hardest to spot because it is not always obvious whether they do what they claim to do.Our automated systems flagged an egregious example of a […]

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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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