Everyone sees not what they want to see

In early March, Kaspersky Lab detected the modular Trojan Backdoor.AndroidOS.Triada which granted superuser privileges to downloaded Trojans (i.e. the payload), as well as the chance to get embedded into system processes. Soon after that we found one of the modules enabling a dangerous attack – spoofing URLs loaded in the browser. Continue reading Everyone sees not what they want to see

Attack on Zygote: a new twist in the evolution of mobile threats

Applications that gain root access to a mobile device without the user’s knowledge can provide access to much more advanced and dangerous malware, in particular, to Triada, the most sophisticated mobile Trojans we know. Continue reading Attack on Zygote: a new twist in the evolution of mobile threats