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

08

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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Pikspam: An SMS Spam Botnet

20

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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Android/FakeToken 2.0 Goes Back to Basics

31

Oct

2012

In March a new type of financial attack on Android devices was found targeting customers of several banks in Europe. Dubbed FakeToken, one of the principal differences of this new threat-compared with previous Trojan bankers for Android such as Zitmo/Spitmo-was the fact that both authentication factors (Internet password and mTAN) were stolen directly from the […]

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