See March 20 update at end of page. A very profitable line for mobile malware developers is Android banking Trojans, which infect phones and steal passwords and other data when victims log onto their online bank accounts. One recent trend is Android malware that attacks users in specific countries, such as South Korea and India. Read more…
Tags: Android Malware, Android/FkSite, Android/FkSite.A, banking fraud, banking trojan, Trusteer
As we all migrate towards using smartphones and tablets, we need to be aware of the risks associated with them. Most of us know that we need to protect our computers with security software, but we don’t always take that precaution with our mobile devices. In fact nearly 75% of Americans do not use mobile Read more…
Tags: Android, Android Malware, Mobile
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 Read more…
Tags: Android Malware, Android Market, Autorun, Google Play, phishing, Ssucl
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 Read more…
Tags: Android Malware, Cybercrime, faketoken, SpyEye, trojan banker, zeus
Recently security researcher Ravi Borgaonkar discussed a vulnerability that caused a Samsung Galaxy SIII to return to a factory reset just by visiting a special website. Mobile phones have a number of useful codes (USSD/MMI) that can be typed on the dialer screen to bring up system information (IMEI, firmware version, etc.). Usually they are Read more…
Tags: Android Malware, DoCoMo 110 Dialer, factory reset, malicious website, Samsung Galaxy SIII
We all know how fast the smart phone market is growing. Along with it, the complexity and the numbers of mobile malware are also on the rise. While I was going through our mobile malware collection, I found an interesting piece of malware for Android. This malware acts as an IRC Bot, just as we Read more…
Tags: Android Bot analysis, Android Dropper, Android Malware, Android Malware Analysis, Android Rooting Exploit, Android SMS broadcast, Arun Sabapathy, Exploit for Android, IRCBOT for android, Malicious Android Application, mobile malware, Premium SMS Trojan, Rooting Exploit
A lot of recent attacks on Android users are attributed to fake websites of popular applications such as Cut the Rope, Instagram, Angry Birds, or Grand Theft Auto III. However, the very recently discovered malware NotCompatible uses a distribution method not previously seen in the mobile world. The malware hacks into vulnerable websites to inject Read more…
Tags: Android, Android Malware, Android Malware Analysis, NotCompatible
On March 6, the widely recognized institute AV-TEST published a long awaited review of Malware Protection for Android–with really disappointing results for us And the report was widely quoted in the media. An analysis on our side quickly showed that an outdated version of McAfee Mobile Security had been tested. Yesterday AV-TEST announced that they had Read more…
Tags: Android, Android Malware, McAfee MobileSecurity, Mobile, Testing
Based on the Android malware that we’ve seen so far, one of the principal motivations to develop and spread malware on Android is to gain financial profit. We often see deceptive applications that send SMS messages to premium-rate numbers without the user’s consent or that run man-in-the-middle attacks to forward SMS messages to an attacker Read more…
Tags: Android Malware, Android/FakeToken, banking fraud, SpyEye, zeus
Last week, there was quite a buzz in the mobile-malware researchers community about a new Android malware. It came to light not because of its sophistication or complexity but due to the simple method that it uses to spread. Most Android malware we have witnessed are repackaged malicious apps made available in black markets or Read more…
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