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SMSZombie Malware Infecting Android Devices, Stealing Money
Threatpost (blog) Android security A nasty new piece of malware that has the ability to steal money from users' via fraudulent SMS payments has shown up in a Chinese Android market and researchers say it's infected more than 500000 victims. The SMSZombie malware is … TrustGo Mobile Security Says Smile to Mobile Phone Thieves |
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Traffic Sniffing, Not Botnet, May Have Led to Android Spam Run
Threatpost (blog) It's not every day that you get a security story that involves Yahoo, Google and Microsoft, but that's what has happened with the claims from a Microsoft official that there was an Android-based botnet in existence sending spam from compromised devices. Yahoo! mail app may be behind Android spam |
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Analysis Reveals Flame Malware's Process Injection Tricks
Threatpost (blog) The analysis done by the Polish team looked specifically at the ways in which the Flame malware is able to hide itself on infected PCs and distribute chunks of code throughout these machines. What they found is that the worm goes through a rather … |
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OpFake, FakeInst Android Malware Variants Continue to Resist Detection
Threatpost (blog) One of those variants, a new version of OpFake, a strain of Android malware that sends SMS texts to premium numbers, was found last month fully integrated with a copy of Opera's Mini browser. … Diving Into Flame, Researchers Find A Link To Stuxnet … |