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The Android.Fakealert malware family is still making the rounds. Experts from security firm Dr. Web have found that the threat is being served via advertisements that pop up in Android applications.
It all starts with various Android apps. They display advertisements that urge users to scan their mobile devices with... |
20 April 2013
14:01 GMT |
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A new report published today by NQ Mobile shows that the number of mobile malware threats increased by 163% last year.
The figures from the report show that in 2012 most malicious elements, 95% to be more precise, targeted Android devices.
In total, the company estimates that 32.8 million Android smartphones... |
15 April 2013
17:01 GMT |
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Android users from Japan and Korea are warned about fake Vertu applications that hide a piece of malware called Android/Smsilence.C.
According to Irfan Asrar of McAfee, the malware is capable of performing several malicious tasks, including intercepting SMS messages and other information, and installing other spywar... |
13 April 2013
06:59 GMT |
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You should probably be aware by now that if you receive an email from one of your contacts and it contains nothing but a shady-looking link, you should not click on it. Here’s a fairly new scheme that’s leveraging hijacked Yahoo! accounts to lure users to malicious sites.
Commtouch experts have identifie... |
27 March 2013
17:41 GMT |
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Over the past months, we’ve seen numerous cyber espionage campaigns that targeted Tibetan and Uyghur activists. However, up until now, the attackers used malicious elements designed to function on Windows and Mac platforms.
Kaspersky experts have identified a new attack that relies on a malicious Android appli... |
26 March 2013
11:36 GMT |
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Symantec experts have been monitoring the evolution of the Android malware dubbed Enesoluty. It appears that cybercriminals are distributing the latest variant of their creation by disguising it as the popular Android game Lime Pop.
Until now, the cybercrooks have attempted to trick Japanese users into installing th... |
25 March 2013
03:20 GMT |
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17-year-old Michael William Cook, of Acworth, Georgia, US, has been arrested and charged with distributing adult content involving children. Police say Cook sent his victims, all aged under 18, text messages that appeared to be coming from a company called Maxi Focus Photography in an effort to trick them into insta... |
22 March 2013
04:39 GMT |
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On Monday, we learned about a malicious Infrared X-Ray Android app targeting users from Japan. Symantec has continued to investigate Android.Uracto, the malware that’s hidden in the application, and has found additional apps masquerading it.
A total of 10 new apps have been discovered, being advertised a... |
19 March 2013
18:01 GMT |
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Android users from Japan who install an app that can allegedly allow them to see through a person’s clothing might get more than they have bargained for.
Symantec experts have identified several variants of an application called Infrared X-Ray. The more harmless variants are designed to retrieve contact inform... |
18 March 2013
17:31 GMT |
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McAfee is warning users from India to beware of shady Android applications that display bogus job offers in an effort to help cybercriminals earn some money.
Once it infects a device, the malicious app, identified as Android/JobFraud, displays a message which reads “Important incoming email from HR, do the nee... |
8 March 2013
16:41 GMT |
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Finnish security firm F-Secure has released its Mobile Threat Report for the fourth quarter of 2012. The study shows that while Android malware continues its upward trend, the number of malicious elements that target Symbian have recorded an abrupt drop.
Malware targeting Symbian accounts for only 4% of all the mobi... |
8 March 2013
05:29 GMT |
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Pieces of malware designed to infect Android devices are highly common these days. In many cases, cybercriminals spread their creations by disguising them as popular applications.
A perfect example for this is a Chinese car driving game found by Avast experts to be bundled with a dangerous piece of malware.
When do... |
5 March 2013
14:01 GMT |
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Security firm Commtouch has released its February 2013 Internet Threats Trend Report. The study shows that in January, a total of 178,246 unique Android malware samples were collected.
This represents a 16% drop compared to December, but the last month of 2012 is considered to be an anomaly.
Experts believe that w... |
27 February 2013
14:21 GMT |
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Mobile malware has become a problem all over the world and South Korea is no exception. Security experts from McAfee have identified a SMS Trojan that’s being distributed by cybercriminals as a version of a popular coffee shop coupon application for Android.
When victims launch the application, they’re p... |
26 February 2013
06:51 GMT |
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Security solutions provider McAfee has released its Threats Report for the fourth quarter of 2012. The study shows that a larger number of industries are targeted by cyberthreats. The number of password-stealing Trojans increased by 74% in the last quarter of 2012 and pieces of malware such as Citadel are now being... |
22 February 2013
15:01 GMT |
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Security firm NQ Mobile has identified a dangerous Android malware that has already infected the devices of over 600,000 users from China. Dubbed “Bill Shocker” (a.expense.Extension.a), the threat is capable of inflating mobile services bills by sending out spam messages from the impacted phones.
Accordi... |
31 January 2013
07:18 GMT |
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The Android malware identified as Android.Exprespam has only been around for a few weeks. However, experts say that it might have already infected thousands of devices. According to calculations made by Symantec researchers, the fake market which serves Exprespam, Android Express’ Play, has been visited 3000 t... |
24 January 2013
11:04 GMT |
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Earlier this month, we learned that a piece of malware called Android.Troj.mdk (MDK) was responsible for the largest mobile botnet China had ever seen, with over 1 million devices being infected. Experts from Symantec say that MDK is actually a new version of an older threat, Android.Backscript.
Researchers have fou... |
24 January 2013
10:55 GMT |
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Webroot researchers have identified a cybercriminal campaign whose main goal is to distribute Android malware that sends SMS messages to premium rate numbers. To ensure the success of their campaign, the attackers are abusing legitimate websites.
One example is a popular Bulgarian site that offers branded watches. T... |
23 January 2013
11:11 GMT |
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Security experts from Trend Micro warn users that scammers are offering fake versions of Temple Run 2 for Android on various app markets.
Temple Run 2 for Android will be launched only later this week, but that doesn’t stop some developers from trying to make a profit by tricking unsuspecting users.
In ... |
23 January 2013
05:15 GMT |
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GFI Labs experts have issued an alert to warn users about a suspicious Android app market called GetWapi. At first glance, the site appears to offer all sorts of applications but, in reality, they all hide a piece of adware.
Regardless whether they download the YouTube app, the Facebook app, or various games, u... |
22 January 2013
05:38 GMT |
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Security experts from Sophos warn users about several fake Android games hosted on Google Play. These apps don’t just help fraudsters make money, but some of them have also been found to collect information.
One of these applications, made by a developer called “abbaradon,” is called Plants vs Zomb... |
21 January 2013
07:48 GMT |
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Around one week ago, experts from security firm Symantec revealed that they had come across a piece of mobile malware called Android.Exprespam, designed to collect personal data from the devices it infected. Now, the cybercriminals behind this malicious element have made some modifications to their campaign.
Initial... |
15 January 2013
08:59 GMT |
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GFI Software has released its VIPRE Report for December 2012. According to the report, the most prevalent threats were mobile Trojans masqueraded as Android apps hosted on fake Google Play sites, and spam campaigns targeting Amazon, LinkedIn and PayPal customers.
Malware-spreading campaigns that leveraged the BlackH... |
8 January 2013
16:51 GMT |
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Over the past few months, Japanese authorities have managed to identify a number of individuals suspected of developing and using malware against mobile phone users. However, it appears that the problem is not catching them, but prosecuting them.
Back in October, Japanese police announced that they had arrested a nu... |
29 December 2012
04:23 GMT |
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Mobile malware has become a serious problem these days and experts believe that the upwards trend will continue in 2013 as well. So how can we tell if our phones have been infected with malware that allows cybercriminals to do all sorts of nasty things?
According to Lookout experts, it’s not a difficult task. ... |
28 December 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Security researchers from Russian firm Doctor Web have come across a new Android Trojan they call Android.DDoS.1.origin. The piece of malware can be used for various malicious tasks, including to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks and to send SMS messages. For the time being, it’s uncertain ho... |
28 December 2012
05:30 GMT |
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If you’re living in Europe or North America and if you’re an Android user, the mobile malware that targets you is most likely designed to steal your money. On the other hand, if you live in Asia, you’re more likely to be bombarded with aggressive adware and annoying ads.
These are the results of a ... |
12 December 2012
08:25 GMT |
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Cybercriminals often rely on blackhat SEO techniques to lure unsuspecting internauts to their malicious sites. In one recent example, GFI Labs researchers have found that searching for “Windows Android Drivers” on Yahoo! can point to some nasty pieces of malware.
According to experts, when users visit on... |
8 December 2012
06:43 GMT |
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Over the past months, Japanese authorities have managed to arrest the members of several cybercriminal organizations responsible for the creation and distribution of pieces of malware that target Android users.
However, according to researchers from Symantec, Android malware continues to thrive in Japan.
On one ha... |
5 December 2012
10:10 GMT |
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A few days ago, Android users were surprised to see that several popular iOS applications appeared on Google Play. Experts wonder if the bogus apps were an attempt to make a profit or part of a malware-spreading scheme.
The fake Apple applications have been removed by Google from the Play site, but it’s clear ... |
20 November 2012
08:47 GMT |
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Jimmy Shah, mobile security researcher at McAfee, highlights the fact that Japanese authorities are doing a decent job when it comes to identifying and prosecuting individuals responsible for the development of mobile malware.
In the past period, Japanese law enforcement apprehended the crooks that created Android/O... |
15 November 2012
16:21 GMT |
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F-Security has released its Mobile Threat Report for the third quarter of 2012. The study focuses on potentially unwanted software, the pieces of spyware and the pieces of malware that posed the greatest threat to mobile phone users in the past four months.
As far as Android is concerned, a number of 51.447 unique ... |
5 November 2012
08:14 GMT |
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In April 2012, Symantec researchers issued a warning regarding a series of malicious Android applications dubbed “The Movie apps” that targeted Japanese users in an attempt to steal information from their phones.
As it turns out, Japanese authorities have managed to identify and arrest the 5 individuals... |
31 October 2012
11:58 GMT |
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In its 3Q 2012 Security Roundup report, security firm Trend Micro has revealed that a total of 175,000 malicious Android apps have been spotted. The study has also highlighted the fact that aggressive mobile adware has become more problematic in the past period.
While testing Android apps from Google Play, Trend Mic... |
29 October 2012
08:27 GMT |
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Yesterday, we reported that mobile security firm Lookout was warning customers about a shady application stored on Google Play that mimicked an update for their Android app. Experts from TrustGo have thoroughly analyzed the threat.
Although the malicious element has been removed from Google Play, it’s still wo... |
19 October 2012
04:00 GMT |
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued an alert to warn the owners of Android smartphones to beware of pieces of malware designed to target their devices.
Two particular malicious elements are named: Loozfon and FinFisher.
According to the agency, Loozfon is ... |
15 October 2012
04:58 GMT |
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Experts have developed a piece of Android malware that’s capable of recording the victim’s environment and reconstructing a 3D model based on the captured data.
Mobile security experts are constantly warning Android users to carefully analyze the permissions requested by an app before installing it. If ... |
29 September 2012
03:58 GMT |
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With the US elections drawing near, many Android users are most likely surfing the web in search for related applications. Experts warn voters to be highly cautious since many of these apps are highly suspicious.
The first app analyzed by Trend Micro is called “Obama vs Romney.” Researchers found that it... |
20 September 2012
10:49 GMT |
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Mobile security firm TrustGo has recently issued its TrustGo Summer Mobile Mayhem Report and the figures are not encouraging at all. They’ve tested 1.7 million applications from 175 markets worldwide and here are the results. Google Play is fairly safe compared to other shady app markets, but it’s far fr... |
17 September 2012
14:51 GMT |
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After analyzing a number of highly-rated free applications designed to run on iOS devices, Bitdefender experts have determined that many of them utterly fail to protect sensitive pieces of information such as passwords.
For instance, Wi-Fi Finder by JiWire – an iPhone app which searches for free and paid Wi-Fi... |
14 September 2012
10:48 GMT |
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Experts from mobile security firm Lookout are warning users, especially those from China, of a new Android click fraud family called SimpleTemai. The malicious elements are capable of downloading additional applications and even inflating victims’ data bills.
Researchers have identified over 1,700 unique insta... |
13 September 2012
08:34 GMT |
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Security firms have stated many times that malware designed for mobile devices is far less profitable for cybercriminals than the one that’s designed for desktop computers. However, recent investigations have showed that mobile malware is becoming more and more profitable.
ESET experts have discovered a c... |
12 September 2012
08:57 GMT |
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GFI Software has released its VIPRE Report for August 2012 and the numbers show that in the past month cybercriminals have been busy launching email scams, malicious mobile applications, and phishing campaigns.
One of the biggest spam campaigns recorded in August revolved around Nationwide. Several variants of the b... |
12 September 2012
04:34 GMT |
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Although the Olympics and the Paralympics have come to an end, researchers say that cybercriminals are still relying on them to spread their malicious elements. A site that attempts to replicate Google Play – iplay-andro7d.net - has been found to serve all sorts of shady apps that hide an SMS Trojan.
The appli... |
12 September 2012
04:12 GMT |
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PhonepayPlus, the organization that regulates all premium rate phone services in the UK, has ordered a Russian company – Connect Ltd – to pay a fine and refund users after researchers highlighted the fact that an application it owned was attempting to trick Android users into signing up to expensive mobil... |
31 August 2012
10:40 GMT |
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A piece of malware identified as Android.Loozfon has been found to steal contact details from the phones of unsuspecting users in Japan. While this functionality is not really new, the fact that it’s designed to mainly target women is somewhat interesting.
Cybercriminals rely on various incentives to trick use... |
24 August 2012
04:20 GMT |
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Security experts warn Android users to be on the lookout for fake Adobe Flash Player installers, since they’ve been found to carry all sorts of malicious elements.
Starting with August 15, only Android users who already have Flash Player installed on their devices will have access to updates. Those who don&rsq... |
22 August 2012
07:23 GMT |
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On July 25, TrustGo Security Labs identified a new sophisticated piece of malware that mainly targeted Android users from China. Identified as SMSZombie.A, the Trojan is believed to have infected over 500,000 users.
The malicious element exploits a security hole in the SMS payment system of China Mobile to make unau... |
20 August 2012
04:19 GMT |
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Google Play is filled with all sorts of applications, but as we’ve seen on numerous occasions, some of them perform other tasks than the ones for which they’re advertised. A perfect example is an app called Call Cheater Lite.
According to its description, the program blocks unwanted phone calls, playing ... |
16 August 2012
07:45 GMT |
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