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The New Japanese “Not Just One-Click” Fraud on Google Play

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Jul

2013

Since the beginning of the year, Japanese one-click fraud scammers have continued to pump new apps onto Google Play and the market has struggled to keep itself clean. Though many are removed on the day they are published, some remain for a few days. Although they have short lives, the apps must provide ample profit […]

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.pw Hit and Run Spam with Royal Baby Trend

25

Jul

2013

Last month Symantec posted few blogs (here and here) on an increase in spam messages with .pw URLs.Since then the volume of URLs with .pw domains has considerably decreased. At the beginning of May the peak volume .pw domains accounted for about 50 percent of all spam URLs. Currently, .pw domains account for less than […]

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First Malicious Use of ‘Master Key’ Android Vulnerability Discovered

24

Jul

2013

Earlier this month, we discussed the discovery of the Master Key vulnerability that allows attackers to inject malicious code into legitimate Android applications without invalidating the digital signature. We expected the vulnerability to be leveraged quickly due to ease of exploitation, and it has.Norton Mobile Insight-our system for harvesting and automatically analyzing Android applications from […]

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