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Fake Cleaning Apps in Google Play: an AutoRun Attack and More

Feb

2013

Almost exactly one year ago, Google announced the addition of a “new layer to Android security,” a service codenamed Bouncer that was intended to provide automated scanning of the Android Market for potentially malicious software. However, as my colleague Jimmy Shah wrote in a previous blog post, Bouncer has not been enough to keep all […]

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Mobile attacks!

Feb

2013

Users of inexpensive Android smartphones typically look for ways to accelerate their devices, for example, by freeing up memory. Demand for software that makes smartphones work a little faster creates supply, some of which happens to be malicious. In addition to legitimate applications, apps that only pretend to clean up the system have appeared on […]

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New Android Malware Comes Bundled with Real Opera Mini

Jul

2012

Avid readers of this blog can attest that we have been documenting a number of noteworthy and malicious binaries affecting smartphones, and those running on Android, specifically, are taking most of the brunt from these threats. One malware we have featured is called OpFake, a family of Trojans posing as a free app, which are […]

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