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| An increasing amount of mobile malware known as Android/Trojan.AndroRAT has been seen in the wild lately. AndroRAT is a contraction of Android and RAT (Remote Access Tool). This piece of malware is far from new, but has gradually become more evolved over the years. AndroRAT History As the story goes (according to its GitHub page),…
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Gooligan is a mobile malware targeting Android OS devices, many of which are susceptible to long known exploits, such as VROOT (CVE-2013-6282) and Towelroot (CVE-2014-3153).Categories: Cybercrime
MobileTags: AndroidexploitGoogleGooliganmalware(Read mo… Continue reading Malware taking advantage of Android OS exploits, again: Gooligan
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| Recently, Kryptowire discovered a malicious app found on China-made mobile devices running the Android OS. This is a baked-in system app used to update the device’s firmware but is found to also steal personal information, among other things.
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If you follow cybersecurity news, you may have heard of the latest Linux exploit referenced under CVE-2016-5195, which has been dubbed Dirty COW. The name is derived based on the exploitation of the copy-on-write (COW) mechanism in Linux.Categories: Cy… Continue reading Mobile Menace Monday: How dare that rootin’ Dirty COW
We mobile researchers sometimes classify apps in order to warn users of its presence because of its potential harm, but leave it up to the users’ discretion to remove. This is the case when it comes to a subcategory of PUPs called monitors. Monitoring … Continue reading Mobile Menace Monday: Beware of monitoring apps
Beware of Antivirus Free 2016 in the Google Play story, it could very easily be confused for a legitimate AV scanner.Categories: Cybercrime
MobileTags: antivirusfake avGoogle Playmobile menace monday(Read more…) Continue reading Mobile Menace Monday: Fake AV makes it onto Google Play
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| A new mobile Trojan has been found using the popular game Pokémon Go as bait. Rest assured that this won’t be the last mobile malware exploiting Pokémon Go.
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We found a new piece of mobile malware using Google Talk to make your phone make unwarranted and malicious outgoing calls.Categories: Mobile
Threat analysisTags: AndroidGoogle TalkMobiletrojan(Read more…) Continue reading Malware uses Google Talk used to make malicious phone calls
A variant of Android/Trojan.FakeApp is stealing the identities of popular applications (apps) such as TrueCaller and Torque Pro. As soon as the FakeApp is installed a shortcut with an icon stolen from one of these popular apps is created, and a notific… Continue reading Android Trojan FakeApp masquerading as legitmate