In August 2011, we released our Snapshot of Android Threats, which stated that there was a significant increase in the number of Trojanized Android apps and actual malware targeting the Android platform. In our 12 Security Predictions For 2012, we mentioned that smartphone and tablet platforms, especially Android, will suffer from more cybercriminal attacks. [...]
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Officials in a number of German state governments have owned up to using the Quellen-TKÜ Trojan Horse software in criminal investigations to intercept encrypted telecommunications on PCs. At least one state said it has suspended use of the software, after the Chaos Computer Club discovered that it could be controlled by anyone, not just [...] January this year, Trend Micro Chairman and co-founder Steve Chang was quoted as saying that Android devices are less secure than those running on iOS. While his comment caused quite a stir back then, today’s threat landscape seems to agree: since Steve’s statement, our researchers saw a whopping 1410% increase in the number of [...] The KOOBFACE botnet became known for using popular social network sites as vector for propagation and abusing these platforms for malicious purposes. Currently, it has been observed that KOOBFACE does not actively propagate via social networks, but rather propagates via a torrent peer-to-peer network through Trojanized shared application files. Based on our research, we found [...] Android malware monitoring for messages sent to an infected device from specific numbers is something that we’ve frequently seen in the past. This is typically done by malware to intercept messages from premium numbers, in order to prevent the user from suspecting a malware infection in their device. The Android malware we recently saw however [...] |
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